Peter Trawl; Or, The Adventures of a Whaler
by William Henry Giles Kingston
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"Peter's father is a country vicar in Ireland, and Peter is a naughty teenager, who has got in with friends who encourage poaching, at that time a most serious offence. His father confiscates the gun, but one night Peter recovers the gun and has another coaching expedition, during which he is caught by the gamekeepers. The magistrate releases him to his father, who travels with him to Liverpool. For fifteen pounds Captain Swales of the Black Swan agrees to take him and to teach him the rudiments of seamanship on a return voyage to Canada. It turned out she was an ill-managed emigrant ship, and...
Chapters (62)
- W H G Kingston "Peter Trawl"
- Chapter One.
- My early days at home.
- Chapter Two.
- How a true friend was gained.
- Chapter Three.
- A sad chapter in my life.
- Chapter Four.
- A fearful catastrophe.
- Chapter Five.
- A friend lost and a friend gained.
- Chapter Six.
- Turned out of house and home.
- Chapter Seven.
- Help comes when least expected.
- Chapter Eight.
- My first voyage.
- Chapter Nine.
- I experience the perils of the sea.
- Chapter Ten.
- Alone on the ocean.
- Chapter Eleven.
- Dangers multiply.
- Chapter Twelve.
- Port reached in an unexpected manner.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- A disastrous voyage.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- Jim and I carried off against our will.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- The voyage of the “Intrepid” begun.
- Chapter Sixteen.
- We cross the Line and attempt to round Cape Horn.
- Chapter Seventeen.
- Rounding Cape Horn.
- Chapter Eighteen.
- Our first whales caught—I hear news of Jack.
- Chapter Nineteen.
- Miles Soper’s narrative concluded.
- Chapter Twenty.
- A mutiny and its consequences.
- Chapter Twenty One.
- A cruise across the Pacific and the adventures I met with.
- Chapter Twenty Two.
- A typhoon, and how we got through it.
- Chapter Twenty Three.
- A fearful narrative—Doings at Strong’s Island.
- Chapter Twenty Four.
- Our life on an uninhabited island.
- Chapter Twenty Five.
- A perilous voyage in the whale-boat.
- Chapter Twenty Six.
- More startling adventures.
- Chapter Twenty Seven.
- The lost one found at last.
- Chapter Twenty Eight.
- Escape from the Island and the events which followed.
- Chapter Twenty Nine.
- On board our old ship—Her voyage through eastern seas.
- Chapter Thirty.
- The voyage home, and how it ended.
- The End.
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