Salem to Canton via Cape of Good hope Sailing Yarn Mutiny Adventure
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The MUTINEERS

A tale of old days at sea and of adventures in the
Far East as Benjamin Lathrop set it down some sixty years ago.
by
CHARLES BOARDMAN HAWES

1st. 1920
This 1927 reprint published by Little, Brown, and Company, Boston

Illustrated

An attractive,VERY GOOD condition ochre coloured illustrated cloth bound book showing some very slight shelf wear with age.

276 pages
140 mm. x 210 mm. x 27 mm.

£6.00 plus
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CONTENTS

I
IN WHICH WE SAIL FOR CANTON, CHINA

I.
   My Father and I Call on Captain Whidden
II.
   Bill Hayden
III.
   The Man Outside the Galley
IV.
   A Piece of Pie
V.
   Kipping

II
IN WHICH WE ENCOUNTER AN ARAB SHIP

VI.
   The Council in the Cabin
VII.
   The Sail with a Lozenge-shaped Patch
VIII.
   Attacked
IX.
   Bad Signs
X.
   The Treasure-Seeker

III
WHICH APPROACHES A CRISIS

XI.
   A Hundred Thousand Dollars in Gold
XII.
   A Strange Tale
XIII.
   Trouble Forward
XIV.
   Bill Hayden Comes to the End of His Voyage

IV
IN WHICH THE TIDE OF OUR FORTUNES EBB

XV.
   Mr. Falk Tries to Cover His Tracks
XVI.
   A Prayer for the Dead
XVII.
   Marooned
XVIII.
   Adventures Ashore

V
IN WHICH THE TIDE TURNS

XIX.
   In Last Resort
XX.
   A Story in Melon Seeds
XXI
   New Allies
XXII.
   We Attack
XXIII.
   What we Found in the Cabin

VI
IN WHICH WE REACH THE PORT OF OUR DESTINATION

XXIV.
   Falk Proposes a Truce
XXV.
   Including a Cross-Examination
XXVI.
   An Attempt to Play on our Sympathy
XXVII
   We Reach Whampoa, But Not the End of Our Troubles

VII
OLD SCORES AND NEW AND A DOUBTFUL WELCOME

XXVIII
   A Mystery Is Solved and a Thief Gets Away
XXIX.
   Homeward Bound
XXX.
   Through Sundra Strait
XXXI.
   Pikes, Cutlasses, and Guns
XXXII.
   " So Ends "

ILLUSTRATIONS
( Frontispiece + 4 - list below - small attractive vignettes throughout )

"At 'em, men! At 'em! Pull, you sons of the dead, pull!"

Suddenly, in the brief silence that followed the two thunderous reports,
a pistol shot rang out sharply, and I saw
Captain Whidden spin round and fall.

We helped him pile his belongs into his chest . . . . . and gave
him a hand on deck.

"Sign that statement, Lathrop," said Captain Falk

He cut from the melon-rind a roughly shaped model of a ship, and stuck in it,
to represent masts, three slivers of bamboo.
This image of the spine gives a good idea of the condition of this book.
 This image of the illustrated front board gives a good idea of the condition of this book.

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