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قراءة كتاب Jethou; or, Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles

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Jethou; or, Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles

Jethou; or, Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles

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JETHOU

OR

CRUSOE LIFE in the CHANNEL ISLES

ILLUSTRATED BY DRAWINGS PREPARED FROM AUTHOR'S OWN SKETCHES

BY

E. R. SUFFLING

Author of "History and Legends of the Broad District,"
"How to Organize a Cruise on the Broads,"
"Afloat in a Gipsy Van," etc.

THIRD EDITION

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LONDON
JARROLD & SONS, 10 & 11, WARWICK LANE, E.C.
[All Rights Reserved]
1898

Frontispiece the Island of Jethou

The Island of Jethou

CONTENTS.

  • PREFACE.
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  • CHAPTER I.
    • My birth and home—My pretty cousin—Accident to the "Kittywich"—Journey to Guernsey—Pleading to become a Crusoe—My wish granted—Outfit secured—Sail to Jethou
  • CHAPTER II.
    • I take possession of the Island—Landing stores—A grand carousal—Farewell—Alone
  • CHAPTER III.
    • First thoughts and impressions—A tour of the Island and description
  • CHAPTER IV.
    • Farming operations—I make a plough and a cart—A donkey hunt—Dumb helpers—My live stock
  • CHAPTER V.
    • Canoeing—Fish of the place—The ormer and limpet—A curious fishing adventure—Queer captures from the sea—Rock fish—Construct a fish pond and water-mill
  • CHAPTER VI.
    • "Flapp," the gull—Surgical operation—The gull who refused to die—Taxidermy extraordinary—Feathered friends—Snakes
  • CHAPTER VII.
    • I build a curious "box-boat"—An unpleasant night at sea—My Sunday service—The poem, "Alexander Selkirk"—Its applicability to my lot
  • CHAPTER VIII.
    • A trip to St. Sampson's harbour—A horrid porcine murder—A voyage round Sark—Nearly capsized—Trip round Guernsey—The pepper-box—Curiosity of tourists
  • CHAPTER IX.
    • Harvest operations—Explore La Creux Derrible, and nearly lose my life—Crusoe on crutches—An extraordinary discovery—Kill a grampus—Oil on troubled waters—Make an overflow pump
  • CHAPTER X.
    • A storm and a wreck—The castaway—Dead—A night of horror—The boathouse destroyed—A burial at sea
  • CHAPTER XI.
    • Climate in Winter—Vision of my father—A warning voice—Supernatural manifestations—The falling rock—My life saved by my dog
  • CHAPTER XII.
    • A fairy pool—Wonders of the deep—Portrait of a poet—The cave of Fauconnaire—A letter from home and my answer to it
  • CHAPTER XIII.
    • Another terrible storm—Loss of the "Yellow Boy"—A ketch wrecked—I rescue a man from the sea, badly injured—He recovers
  • CHAPTER XIV.
    • Work and song—Sunday service—Build a larger boat, the "Anglo-Franc"—Collecting wreckage—Commence a jetty—Our cookery—Blasting operations—The opening banquet
  • CHAPTER XV.
    • Trawling for fish and dredging for curios—Some remarkable finds—A ghastly resurrection—The mysterious paper—The hieroglyphic—A dangerous fall—Hors de combat—Attempts to unravel the paper
  • CHAPTER XVI.
    • Yarns: The cabbages which hung their heads—The raft of spruce—Voyage of the "Dewdrop"—A lucky family—A deep, deep draught—The maire's cat
  • CHAPTER XVII.
    • The Will again—Searching for a clue to the paper—Barbe Rouge's Will—A probable clue—Hopes and doubts—Perplexed—A memorable trawl by moonlight—A real clue at last—The place of the skull found
  • CHAPTER XVIII.
    • Digging for the treasure—A noonday rest—The ghastly tenant of the treasure house—We find the treasure—An account of what we discovered
  • CHAPTER XIX.
    • Preparing to leave—A letter home—We lengthen and enlarge the

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