Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan
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About This Book
Miles Milton is a prodigal. He struggles with authority and, like the prodigal son in Scripture, must learn the lessons of life the hard way. Through a series of events, he joins the British army for the war in the Sudan, thinking he will experience the good life of adventure and proudly make his way in the world. However, the providential hand of God has prepared a course for young Miles whereby, through the adventures and experiences of life in the blazing heat of the Sudan and among the tribal clans, and while attempting to survive among his enemies, he realizes the folly of his youthful wa...
Chapters (61)(click to expand)
- R.M. Ballantyne "Blue Lights"
- Chapter One.
- Hot Work in the Soudan. The False Step.
- Chapter Two.
- Shows some of the Consequences of the False Step, and introduces the Reader to Peculiar Company.
- Chapter Three.
- The “Sailors’ Welcome”—Miles has a Night of it and Enlists—His Friend Armstrong has an Agreeable Surprise at the Soldiers’ Institute.
- Chapter Four.
- The Embarkation Jetty—And Nipped in the Bud.
- Chapter Five.
- Difficulties met and overcome.
- Chapter Six.
- The Unfinished Letter—Too Late!
- Chapter Seven.
- Miles begins to discover himself—Has a few Rough Experiences—And falls into Pea-Soup, Salt-Water, and Love.
- Chapter Eight.
- Has Reference to many Things connected with Mind, Matter, and Affections.
- Chapter Nine.
- Our Hero meets a Friend unexpectedly in Peculiar Circumstances, and has a very Strange Encounter.
- Chapter Ten.
- Off to the Wars.
- Chapter Eleven.
- New and Sad mingled with Curious Experiences.
- Chapter Twelve.
- In Action at last.
- Chapter Thirteen.
- Tells of some of the Trials, Uncertainties, Dangers, and Disasters of War.
- Chapter Fourteen.
- Describes some of Osman Digna’s Eccentricities and Other Matters.
- Chapter Fifteen.
- Athletics—A New Acquaintance turns up—An Expedition undertaken, followed by a Race for Life.
- Chapter Sixteen.
- Letters from Home—Flynn is Exalted and brought Low—Rumours of War in the Air.
- Chapter Seventeen.
- The Expedition—Enemy reported—Miles in a Dilemma.
- Chapter Eighteen.
- Wherein are described an Assault, a Furious Fight, and some Strange Personal Encounters.
- Chapter Nineteen.
- Refers to Sergeant Hardy, Amytoor-Lawyer Sutherland, and other Matters.
- Chapter Twenty.
- Old Friends in New Aspects.
- Chapter Twenty One.
- Shows how the Lady of the Institute discourses to the Sergeant, how Jack-Tars go out on the Spree, and how Music Conquers Warriors.
- Chapter Twenty Two.
- Led into Captivity.
- Chapter Twenty Three.
- Shows that Suffering tends to draw out Sympathy.
- Chapter Twenty Four.
- Adventures among the Soudanese, and Strange Meeting with the Mahdi.
- Chapter Twenty Five.
- Miles is promoted—Molloy overthrows the Mahdi, and is elevated for so doing.
- Chapter Twenty Six.
- Cruel Treatment—Despair Followed by Hope and a Joyful Discovery.
- Chapter Twenty Seven.
- In which Hopes and Fears rise and fall.
- Chapter Twenty Eight.
- Chapter Twenty Nine.
- Describes a few Meetings and several Surprises.
- Chapter Thirty.
- Conclusion.
- The End.
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