



Produced by Norman M. Wolcott







The Blockade Runners by Jules Verne


[Redactor's Note: _The Blockade Runners_ (number V008 in the T&M
numerical listing of Verne's works) is a translation of _Les forceurs
de blocus_ (1871). _The Blockade Runners_, a novella, was included
along with _A Floating City_ in the first english and french editions
of this work. This translation, which follows that of Sampson and Low
(UK) and Scribners (US) is by "N. D'Anvers", pseudonymn for Mrs. Arthur
Bell (d. 1933) who also translated other Verne books. It is also
included in the fifteen volume Parke edition of the works of Jules
Verne (1911). There is another translation by Henry Frith which was
published by Routledge (1876).

Both of these stories are about ships; _Floating City_ about the
largest ship of the time, the _Great Eastern_, and _Blockade Runners_
about one of the fastest, the _Dolphin_.

This text version was prepared from public domain sources by Norman M.
Wolcott, 2003, nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu]





The Blockade Runners

Table of Contents




  I  THE _DOLPHIN_
  II  GETTING UNDER SAIL
  III  THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM
  IV  CROCKSTON'S TRICK
  V  THE SHOT FROM THE _IROQUOIS,_ AND MISS JENNY'S ARGUMENTS
  VI  SULLIVAN ISLAND CHANNEL
  VII  A SOUTHERN GENERAL
  VIII  THE ESCAPE
  IX  BETWEEN TWO FIRES
  X  ST. MUNGO





THE BLOCKADE RUN