The Hot Swamp
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About This Book
Nearly two thousand seven hundred years ago-or some-where about eight hundred years BuCu-there dwelt a Phoenician sea-captain in one of the eastern sea-ports of Greece-known at that period, or soon after, as Hellas. This captain was solid, square, bronzed, bluff, and resolute, as all sea-captains are-or ought to be-whether ancient or modern. He owned, as well as commanded, one of those curious vessels with one mast and a mighty square-sail, fifty oars or so, double-banked, a dragon's tail in the stern and a horse's head at the prow, in which the Phoenicians of old and other mariners were wont ...
Chapters (76)
- R.M. Ballantyne "The Hot Swamp"
- Chapter One.
- A Romance of Old Albion. Opens with Leave-Taking.
- Chapter Two.
- Temporary Delay through Elements and Pirates.
- Chapter Three.
- On the Voyage.
- Chapter Four.
- The Storm and Wreck.
- Chapter Five.
- After the Wreck.
- Chapter Six.
- First Anxieties and Troubles.
- Chapter Seven.
- Converse and Adventures by the Way.
- Chapter Eight.
- Discovery and Flight.
- Chapter Nine.
- Homecoming.
- Chapter Ten.
- The Sports.
- Chapter Eleven.
- A Notable Duel Followed by Changes and Plots.
- Chapter Twelve.
- Plots and Plans.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- Mother and Son.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- A Terrible Calamity.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- An Eavesdropper in the Cave.
- Chapter Sixteen.
- Adventures in the Forests.
- Chapter Seventeen.
- Branwen in Imminent Danger.
- Chapter Eighteen.
- The Prince Undertakes Strange Work.
- Chapter Nineteen.
- Prince Bladud takes Possession of his Estate and Begins Business.
- Chapter Twenty.
- A Strange Abode and a Wild Visitor.
- Chapter Twenty One.
- A Strange Encounter and a Friend in Need.
- Chapter Twenty Two.
- The Pigs’ Cure.
- Chapter Twenty Three.
- In which very Perplexing Events Occur.
- Chapter Twenty Four.
- Describes an Ardent Search.
- Chapter Twenty Five.
- More Secrets and Surprises.
- Chapter Twenty Six.
- Further Searchings and Perplexities.
- Chapter Twenty Seven.
- Cross Purposes and Complications.
- Chapter Twenty Eight.
- Enemies, Friends, Scouts, Skirmishes, and Councils of War.
- Chapter Twenty Nine.
- The Battle of the Springs.
- Chapter Thirty.
- Small Beginnings of Future Great Things.
- Chapter Thirty One.
- More Plots and Plans.
- Chapter Thirty Two.
- Branwen Visits Gunrig.
- Chapter Thirty Three.
- The Hebrew’s Mission.
- Chapter Thirty Four.
- Bladud’s Return and Trials.
- Chapter Thirty Five.
- The Plot Thickens.
- Chapter Thirty Six.
- The Dénouement.
- Chapter Thirty Seven.
- The Last.
- The End.
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