The Cruise of the "Esmeralda"
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Buried Treasure! They were tough times, those years, but there was a story in his family -- they'd been telling it for generations -- that centuries ago, an ancestor of Captain Saint Leger's had found a shipwreck laden with a huge hoard of gold and jewels. He'd buried it, so the story went, in a secret location on an island in the Far East. Young Captain Saint Leger -- broke as he is -- sets out to find the treasure. It's not as easy as it he gets attacked by pirates, and of course the voyage itself is long and fretful. . . . but they get there, puzzle out the directions his ancestor encrypted...
Chapters (42)
- Harry Collingwood "The Cruise of the Esmeralda"
- Chapter One.
- The Story of the Buried Treasure.
- Chapter Two.
- The Cryptogram.
- Chapter Three.
- The “Esmeralda.”
- Chapter Four.
- In Blue Water.
- Chapter Five.
- A Wreck and a Rescue.
- Chapter Six.
- The Tragedy on board the “City of Calcutta.”
- Chapter Seven.
- The Strange Fate of the “Northern Queen.”
- Chapter Eight.
- The Chief Mate has a Presentiment.
- Chapter Nine.
- An Eventful Night.
- Chapter Ten.
- On a Lee-Shore.
- Chapter Eleven.
- A Ghastly Waif of the Sea.
- Chapter Twelve.
- The Solution of the Cryptogram.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- The New Crew.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- Plot and Counterplot.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- We arrive at the Treasure Island.
- Chapter Sixteen.
- The Finding of the Treasure: and what followed.
- Chapter Seventeen.
- The Recapture of the Barque.
- Chapter Eighteen.
- A Pacific Hurricane.
- Chapter Nineteen.
- In Dire Extremity.
- Chapter Twenty.
- The End of the Adventure.
- The End.
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