CHAPTER X.
INTELLIGENCE OF THE ISLANDER 116

CHAPTER XI.
DIFFICULT NAVIGATION 127

CHAPTER XII.
THE CALAMITY ON FRENCH REEF 138

CHAPTER XIII.
A NIGHT LOST IN THE STORM 149

CHAPTER XIV.
LOOKING FOR THE ISLANDER 160

CHAPTER XV.
A PARTIAL SOLUTION OF THE MYSTERY 172

CHAPTER XVI.
ACROSS THE GULF OF MEXICO 184

CHAPTER XVII.
THE SYLVANIA IN AMBUSH 196

CHAPTER XVIII.
HOW NICK BOOMSBY MANAGED HIS CASE 208

CHAPTER XIX.
A SEARCH FOR THE LOST TREASURE 220

CHAPTER XX.
THE THEORY AND THE FACTS 231

CHAPTER XXI.
UP THE MISSISSIPPI 242

CHAPTER XXII.
THE ISLANDER IN A BAD FIX 253

CHAPTER XXIII.
AN EMBARRASSING SITUATION 265

CHAPTER XXIV.
A CREVASSE ON THE MISSISSIPPI 277

CHAPTER XXV.
SAILING ACROSS THE FIELDS 289

CHAPTER XXVI.
A DESPERATE STRUGGLE WITH THE RUSHING WATERS 301

CHAPTER XXVII.
THE PLANTER AND HIS FAMILY 312

CHAPTER XXVIII.
A DISTINGUISHED PASSENGER 324

CHAPTER XXIX.
UP THE RIVER FOR MANY DAYS 335

CHAPTER XXX.
UP ANOTHER RIVER AND HOME AGAIN 347

UP THE RIVER;

OR,

YACHTING ON THE MISSISSIPPI.

CHAPTER I.

IN CAPTAIN BOOMSBY'S SALOON.

"I don't think it's quite the thing, Alick," said my cousin, Owen
Garningham, as we were walking through Bay Street after our return to
Jacksonville from the interior of Florida.

"What is not quite the thing, Owen?" I inquired, for he had given me no
clue to what he was thinking about.

"After I chartered your steamer for a year to come here, and go up the
Mississippi River--by the way, this river is called 'The Father of
Waters,' isn't it?" asked Owen, flying off from the subject in his
mind, as he was in the habit of doing.

"Every schoolboy in this country learns that from his geography," I
replied.

"Happily, I was never a schoolboy in this country, and I didn't find it
out from th