CONTENTS
chapter page I The Singular Fate of the Brig Polly 3 II How the Schooner Exertion Fell among Thieves 25 III The Tragedy of the Frigate Medusa 51 IV The Wreck of the Blenden Hall, East Indiaman 76 V The Adventures of David Woodard, Chief Mate 107 VI Captain Paddock on the Coast of Barbary 131 VII Four Thousand Miles in an Open Boat 160 VIII The Frigates That Vanished in the South Seas 189 IX When H. M. S. Phoenix Drove Ashore 212 X The Roaring Days of Piracy 232 XI The Loss of the Wager Man-of-War 259 XII The Cruise of the Wager's Long-Boat 288 XIII The Grim Tale of the Nottingham Galley 309 XIV The Storm-Swept Fleet of Admiral Graves 330 XV The Brisk Yarn of the Speedwell Privateer 350 XVI Luckless Seamen Long in Exile 367 XVII The Noble King of the Pelew Islands 393
