The Quest of the Golden Pearl
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Title: The Quest of the Golden Pearl. ... With illustrations by H. Nisbet.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection i...
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- THE HAUNTED PAGODAS THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN PEARL
- Illustrated by Hume Nisbet
- London: Ward and Downey
- 1897
- QUEST OF THE GOLDEN PEARL.
- CHAPTER I.—THE SHARK-CHARMER WALKS THE PLANK.
- CHAPTER II. A STROKE OF LUCK AND AN AFTER-STROKE.
- CHAPTER III.—THE QUEST BEGINS.
- CHAPTER IV.—INTRODUCES BOSIN, AND TELLS HOW CAPTAIN MANGO PROVED HIMSELF A TRUMP.
- CHAPTER V.—THE LASCAR GETS HIS KNIFE BACK.
- CHAPTER VI.—IN THE THICK OF IT.
- CHAPTER VII.—“FUN OR FIGHTING, I'M READY, ANYHOW!”
- CHAPTER VIII.—AT THE HAUNTED PAGODAS.
- CHAPTER IX.—WAS IT JACK?
- CHAPTER X.—IN WHICH THE OLD SAW, “OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN, INTO THE FIRE,” IS REVERSED WITH STARTLING EFFECT.
- CHAPTER XI.—INTO THE HEART OF THE HILL.
- CHAPTER XII.—RELATES HOW A WRONG ROAD LED TO THE RIGHT PLACE.
- CHAPTER XIII.—CAPTAIN MANGO “GOES ALOFT.”
- CHAPTER XIV.—SHROUDED IN A HAMMOCK.
- CHAPTER XV.—THE CROCODILE PIT.
- CHAPTER XVI.—DON SETS A DEATH-TRAP FOR THE LASCAR.
- CHAPTER XVII.—THE BLAST OF A CONCH-SHELL.
- CHAPTER XVIII.—BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH.
- CHAPTER XIX.—ONE-TO-TWENTY GIVES TWENTY-TO-ONE THE WORST OF IT.
- CHAPTER XX.—THE LAST STRAW.
- CHAPTER XXI. RIVALS FOR THE HONOURS OF DEATH.
- CHAPTER XXII.—A REPORT FROM THE SEA.
- CHAPTER XXIII.—DON RUNS THE GAUNTLET.
- CHAPTER XXIV.—IN THE NICK OF TIME.
- CHAPTER XXV.—THE SHARK-CHARMER IS CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP.
- CHAPTER XXV.—BRINGS THE QUEST TO AN END.
- THE END.
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