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Title: Hair Breadth Escapes
Perilous incidents in the lives of sailors and travelers
in Japan, Cuba, East Indies, etc., etc.

Author: T. S. Arthur

Release Date: August 28, 2009 [EBook #29829]

Language: English

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HAIR BREADTH ESCAPES

OR

PERILOUS INCIDENTS IN THE LIVES OF SAILORS

AND TRAVELERS IN JAPAN, CUBA,

EAST INDIES, ETC., ETC.

BY

T. S. ARTHUR

NEW YORK

WORTHINGTON CO., 747 BROADWAY

COPYRIGHT, 1889, BY

WORTHINGTON CO.

CONTENTS

PAGE
Pirate Life. 5
Captivity among the Japanese. 37
A Sea-Fight on the Cuban Coast. 91
A Winter in the Frozen Ocean. 125
The Shipwreck. 150
Voyage to the East Indies. 165
Home-Sickness of a Siberian. 189

ADVENTURES.

Pirate Life.

I served as assistant pilot on board the merchant vessel Dolphin,
bound from Jamaica for London, which had already doubled the southern
point of the Island of Cuba, favored by the wind, when one afternoon,
I suddenly observed a very suspicious-looking schooner bearing down
upon us from the coast. I climbed the mast, with my spy glass, and
became convinced that it was a pirate. I directed the captain, who was
taking his siesta, to be awaked instantly, showed him the craft, and
advised him to alter our course, that we might avoid her. The captain,
a man of unfortunate temper, whose principal traits of character were
arrogance, avarice, and obstinacy, scorned my counsel, and insisted
that we had nothing to fear, as we were perfectly well protected by
the English flag.

We sailed on, while the schooner drew