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Dick Sands the Boy Captain by Jules Verne




[Redactor's Note: _Dick Sands the Boy Captain_ (Number V018 in the T&M
numerical listing of Verne's works) is a translation of _Un capitaine
de quinze ans_ (1878) by Ellen E. Frewer who also translated other
Verne works. The current translation was published by Sampson & Low in
England (1878) and Scribners in New York (1879) and was republished
many times and included in Volume 8 of the Parke edition of _The Works
of Jules Verne_ (1911). There is another translation published by
George Munro (1878) in New York with the title _Dick Sand A Captain at
Fifteen_.

This work has an almost mechanical repetiveness in the continuing
description of the day after day trials of sailing at sea. Thus the
illustrations, of which there were 94 in the french edition, are all
the more important in keeping up the reader's interest. The titles of
the illustrations are given here as a prelude to a future fully
illustrated edition.]



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DICK SANDS




THE BOY CAPTAIN.


BY

JULES VERNE.


TRANSLATED BY

ELLEN E. FREWER


ILLUSTRATED


1879


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CONTENTS.


  PART THE FIRST

  I.  THE "PILGRIM"
  II.  THE APPRENTICE
  III.  A RESCUE
  IV.  THE SURVIVORS OF THE "WALDECK"
  V.  DINGO'S SAGACITY
  VI.  A WHALE IN SIGHT
  VII.  PREPARATIONS FOR AN ATTACK
  VIII.  A CATASTROPHE
  IX.  DICK'S PROMOTION
  X.  THE NEW CREW
  XI.  ROUGH WEATHER
  XII.  LAND AT LAST
  XIV.  ASHORE
  XV.  A STRANGER
  XVI.  THROUGH THE FOREST
  XVII.  MISGIVINGS
  XVIII.  A TERRIBLE DISCOVERY


  PART THE SECOND

  I.  THE DARK CONTINENT
  II.  ACCOMPLICES
  III.  ON THE MARCH AGAIN
  IV.  ROUGH TRAVELLING
  V.  WHITE ANTS
  VI.  A DIVING-BELL
  VII.  A SLAVE CARAVAN
  VIII.  NOTES BY THE WAY
  IX.  KAZONDE
  X.  MARKET-DAY
  XI.  A BOWL OF PUNCH
  XII.  ROYAL OBSEQUIES
  XIII.  IN CAPTIVITY
  XIV.  A RAY OF HOPE
  XV.  AN EXCITING CHASE
  XVI.  A MAGICIAN
  XVII.  DRIFTING DOWN THE STREAM
  XVIII.  AN ANXIOUS VOYAGE
  XIX.  AN ATTACK
  XX.  A HAPPY REUNION



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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


  Number    Title

  I-01-a    Cousin Benedict

  I-01-b    Captain Hull advanced to meet Mrs. Weldon and her party

  I-02-a    Negoro

  I-02-b    Dick and Little Jack

  I-03-a    Negoro had approached without being noticed by any one

  I-03-b    The dog began to swim slowly and with manifest weakness
            towards the boat

  I-04-a    Mrs. Weldon assisted by Nan and the ever active Dick Sands,
            was doing everything in her power to restore consciousness
            to the poor sufferers

  I-04-b    The good-natured <DW64>s were ever ready to lend a helping
            hand

  I-05-a    "There you are, then, Master Jack!"

  I-05-b    Jack cried out in the greatest excitement that Dingo knew
            how to read

  I-05-c    Negoro, with a threatening gesture that seemed half
            involuntary, withdrew immediately to his accustomed quarters

  I-06-a    "This Dingo is nothing out of the way"

  I-06-b    Occasionally Dick Sands would take a pistol, and now and
            then a rifle

  I-06-c    "What a big fellow!"

  I-07-a    The captain's voice came from the retreating boat

  I-07-b    "I must get you to keep your eye upon that man"

  I-08-a    The whale seemed utterly unconscious of the attack that was
            threatening it

  I-08-b    The boat was well-nigh full of water, and in imminent danger
            of being capsized

  I-08-c    There is no hope

  I-09-a    "Oh, we shall soon be on shore!"

  I-09-b    "Oh yes, Jack; you shall keep the wind in order"

  I-10-a    All three of them fell flat upon the deck

  I-10-b    Jack evidenced his satisfaction by giving his huge friend a
            hearty shake of the hand

  I-10-c    A light shadow glided stealthily along the deck

  I-11-a    For half an hour Negoro stood motionless

  I-12-a    Under bare poles

  I-12-b    Quick as lightning, Dick Sands drew a revolver from his pocket

  I-12-c    "There! look there!"

  I-13-a    "You have acquitted yourself like a man"

  I-13-b    They both examined the outspread chart

  I-13-c    The sea was furious, and dashed vehemently upon the crags
            on either hand

  I-14-a    Surveying the shore with the air of a man who was trying to
            recall some past experience

  I-14-b    Not without emotion could Mrs. Weldon, or indeed any of
            them, behold the unfortunate ship

  I-14-c    The entomologist was seen making his way down the face of
            the cliff at the imminent lisk of breaking his neck

  I-15-a    "Good morning, my young friend"

  I-15-b    "He is my little son"

  I-15-c    They came to a tree to which a horse was tethered

  I-16-a    The way across the forest could scarcely be called a path

  I-16-b    Occasionally the soil became marshy

  I-16-c    A halt for the night

  I-16-d    Hercules himself was the first to keep watch

  I-17-a    "Don't fire!"

  I-17-b    A herd of gazelles dashed past him like a glowing cloud

  I-17-c    A halt was made for the night beneath a grove of lofty trees

  I-18-a    "Look here! here are hands, men's hands"

  I-18-b    The man was gone