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Title: The Frozen Pirate

Author: W. Clark Russell

Release Date: August 2, 2007 [EBook #22215]

Language: English

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THE FROZEN PIRATE.

BY W. CLARK RUSSELL

AUTHOR OF "THE WRECK OF THE GROSVENOR," "THE LADY MAUD," "A SAILOR'S
SWEETHEART," ETC., ETC.

PH[OE]NIX PUBLISHING CO.,
NEW YORK.

CONTENTS.

I. The Storm

II. The Iceberg

III. I Lose My Companions

IV. I Quit the Wreck

V. I Sight a White Coast

VI. An Island of Ice

VII. I am Startled by a Discovery

VIII. The Frozen Schooner

IX. I Lose my Boat

X. Another Startling Discovery

XI. I Make Further Discoveries

XII. A Lonely Night

XIII. I Explore the Hold and Forecastle

XIV. An Extraordinary Occurrence

XV. The Pirate's Story

XVI. I Hear of a Great Treasure

XVII. The Treasure

XVIII. We Talk over our Situation

XIX. We Take a View of the Ice

XX. A Merry Evening

XXI. We Explore the Mines

XXII. A Change Comes Over the Frenchman

XXIII. The Ice Breaks Away

XXIV. The Frenchman Dies

XXV. The Schooner Frees Herself

XXVI. I am Troubled by Thoughts of the Treasure

XXVII. I Encounter a Whaler

XXVIII. I Strike a Bargain with the Yankee

XXIX. I Value the Lading

XXX. Our Progress to the Channel

XXXI. The End

Postscript

THE FROZEN PIRATE.

CHAPTER I.

THE STORM.

The _Laughing Mary_ was a light ship, as sailors term a vessel that
stands high upon the water, having discharged her cargo at Callao, from
which port we were proceeding in ballast to Cape Town, South Africa,
there to call for orders. Our run to within a few parallels of the
latitude of the Horn had been extremely pleasant; the proverbial
mildness of the Pacific O