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قراءة كتاب The Adventures of Billy Topsail
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اللغة: English
الصفحة رقم: 2
closing with an apology and a wag of the tail.
Chapter III
26
Describing the haunts and habits of devil-fish and informing the reader of Billy Topsail's determination to make a capture at all hazards.
Chapter IV
34
Recounting the adventure of the giant squid of Chain Tickle, in which the punt gets in the grip of a gigantic tentacle and Billy Topsail strikes with an axe.
Chapter V
44
On the face of the cliff: Wherein Billy Topsail gets lost in a perilous place and sits down to recover his composure.
Chapter VI
52
In which Billy Topsail loses his nerve. Wherein, also, the wings of gulls seem to brush past.
Chapter VII
59
In which Billy Topsail hears the fur trader's story of a jigger and a cake of ice in the wind.
Chapter VIII
69
In the offshore gale: In which Billy Topsail goes seal hunting and is swept to sea with the floe.
Chapter IX
78
In which old Tom Topsail burns his punt and Billy wanders in the night and three lives hang on a change of wind.
Chapter X
86
How Billy Topsail's friend Bobby Lot joined fortunes with Eli Zitt and whether or not he proved worthy of the partnership.
Chapter XI
93
Bobby Lot learns to swim and Eli Zitt shows amazing courage and self-possession and strength.
Chapter XII
104
Containing the surprising adventure of Eli Zitt's little partner on the way back from Fortune Harbour, in which a Newfoundland dog displays a saving intelligence.
Chapter XIII
116
In which Billy Topsail sets sail for the Labrador, the Rescue strikes an iceberg, and Billy is commanded to pump for his life.
Chapter XIV
123
Faithfully narrating the amazing experiences of a Newfoundland schooner and describing Billy Topsail's conduct in a sinking boat.
Chapter XV
131
In which the Ruddy Cove doctor tells Billy Topsail and a stranger how he came to learn that the longest way 'round is sometimes the shortest way home.
Chapter XVI
142
Describing how Billy Topsail set out for Ruddy Cove with Her Majesty's Mail and met with catastrophe.
Chapter XVII
151
Billy Topsail wrings out his clothes and finds himself cut off from shore by thirty yards of heaving ice.
Chapter XVIII
159
In which Billy Topsail joins the whaler Viking and a school is sighted.
Chapter XIX
164
In which the chase is kept up and the captain promises himself a kill.
Chapter XX
172
The mate of the fin-back whale rises for the last time, with a blood-red sunset beyond, and Billy Topsail says, "Too bad!"
Chapter XXI