The first edition of this book is dated 1700. The edition used is dated 1700. The publisher was Nisbet & Co. Ltd., 22 Berners St., London. The number of pages is 238.
Contents
Chapter I.
A beautiful island lying like a gem on the breast of the great Pacific—a coral reef surrounding, and a calm lagoon within, on the glass-like surface of which rests a most piratical-looking schooner.
Chapter II.
When Antonio Zeppa recovered consciousness, he found himself lying on a mattress in the schooner’s hold, bound, bleeding, and with a dull and dreadful sense of pain at his breast, which at first he could not account for.
Chapter III.
But Orley’s mother refused to be comforted. What she had heard or read of pirates induced her to believe that mercy must necessarily be entirely banished from their hearts; and her husband, she knew full well, would sooner die than join them.
Chapter IV.
Let us waft ourselves away, now, over the sea, in pursuit of the strange barque which had treated the good people of Ratinga so cavalierly.
Chapter V.
We left the poor madman, Antonio Zeppa, wandering aimlessly up into the mountains of Sugar-loaf Island.
Chapter VI.
After Zeppa had remained a short time in his new quarters, he began to take an interest in the children of his savage friends.
Chapter VII.
Strange to say, the anger of the Raturans was not assuaged by the rebuff which they received at that time.
Chapter VIII.
Let us return, now, to our miserable and half-hearted pirate, far out upon the raging sea.
Chapter IX.
Who shall tell, or who shall understand, the thoughts of Richard Rosco, the ex-pirate, as he wandered, lost yet regardless, in that dismal swamp?
Chapter X.
We change the scene once more, and transport our readers over the ocean waves to a noble ship which is breasting those waves right gallantly.
Chapter XI.
When Zeppa, as related in a previous chapter, staggered up the mountain side with Richard Rosco in his arms, his great strength was all but exhausted, and it was with the utmost difficulty that he succeeded at last, before night-fall, in laying his burden on the couch in his cave.
Chapter XII.
No sooner had Orlando and the negro passed round the cliff to which Rosco had directed them, than they beheld a sight which was well calculated to fill them with anxiety and alarm, for there stood Zeppa, panting and wrestling with one of the fiends that were in the habit of assailing him.
Chapter XIII.
A few days after the discovery of Zeppa by his son, a trading vessel chanced to touch at the island, the captain of which no sooner saw the British man-of-war than he lowered his gig, went aboard in a state of great excitement, and told how that, just two days before, he had been chased by a pirate in latitude so-and-so and longitude something else!
Chapter XIV.
The slopes and knolls and palm-fringed cliffs of Ratinga were tipped with gold by the western sun one evening as he declined towards his bed in the Pacific, when Marie Zeppa wandered with Betsy Waroonga and her brown little daughter Zariffa towards the strip of bright sand in front of the village.
Chapter XV.
And now, once again, we find ourselves in the palm-grove of Ratinga Island.
Chapter XVI.
It need scarcely be said that the man-of-war did not overtake the pirate’s canoe!
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