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  1. CHAPTER XXVI.
  2. Mischief brewing—My blood is made to ran cold—Evil consultations and wicked resolves—Bloody Bill attempts to do good and fails—The attack—Wholsale murder—The flight—The escape,
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  3. CHAPTER XXVII.
  4. Reflections—The wounded man—The squall—True consolation—Death,
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  5. CHAPTER XXVIII.
  6. Alone on the deep—Necessity the mother of invention—A valuable book discovered—Natural phenomenon—A bright day in my history,
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  7. CHAPTER XXIX.
  8. The effect of a cannon-shot—A happy reunion of a somewhat moist nature—Retrospects and explanations—An awful dive—New plans—The last of the Coral Island,
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  9. CHAPTER XXX.
  10. The voyage—The island, and consultation in which danger is scouted as a thing unworthy of consideration—Rats and cats—The native teacher—Awful revelations—Wonderful effects of Christianity,
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  11. CHAPTER XXXI.
  12. A strange and bloody battle—The lion bearded in his den—Frightful scenes of cruelty, and fears for the future,
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  13. CHAPTER XXXII.
  14. An unexpected discovery, and a bold, reckless defiance, with its consequences—Plans of escape, and heroic resolves,
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  15. CHAPTER XXXIII.
  16. The flight—The pursuit—Despair and its results—The lion bearded in his den again—Awful danger threatened and wonderfully averted—A terrific storm,
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  17. CHAPTER XXXIV.
  18. Imprisonment—Sinking hopes—Unexpected freedom to more than one, and in more senses than one,
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  19. CHAPTER XXXV.
  20. Conclusion,
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