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Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.

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THRILLING NARRATIVES OF MUTINY, MURDER AND PIRACY,
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
THE BOOK OF THE OCEAN.
- ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN WOODWARD AND FIVE SEAMEN IN THE ISLAND OF CELEBES.
- AN OCCURRENCE AT SEA.
- ACCOUNT OF THE LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP PHŒNIX.
- AN ACCOUNT OF THE WHALE FISHERY
  - WITH ANECDOTES OF THE DANGERS ATTENDING IT.
    - THE NARWAL, OR SEA-UNICORN,
- LOSS OF THE BRIG TYRREL.
- THE LOSS OF THE PEGGY.
- LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP LITCHFIELD.
- WRECK OF THE ROTHSAY CASTLE STEAMER.
- SHIPWRECK OF THE FRENCH SHIP DROITS DE L’HOMME.
- THE LOSS OF HIS MAJESTY’S SHIP, QUEEN CHARLOTTE.
- A SCENE ON THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.
- SHIPWRECK OF THE FRENCH FRIGATE MEDUSA.
- THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE.
- LOSS OF THE ÆNEAS TRANSPORT.
- THE ABSENT SHIP.
- LOSS OF THE HALSEWELL.
- AN ACCOUNT OF FOUR RUSSIAN SAILORS,
  - ABANDONED ON THE ISLAND OF EAST SPITZBERGEN.
- LOSS OF THE AMPHITRITE CONVICT SHIP.
- THE MUTINEERS, A TALE OF THE SEA.
- FATE OF SEVEN SAILORS,
  - WHO WERE LEFT ON THE ISLAND OF ST. MAURICE.
- SEAMEN WINTERING IN SPITZBERGEN.
- A MAN OVERBOARD.
- AN ESCAPE THROUGH THE CABIN-WINDOWS.
- TOM CRINGLE’S LOG.
- LOSS OF THE NAUTILUS, SLOOP OF WAR,
  - ON A ROCK IN THE ARCHIPELAGO.
- WRECK OF A SLAVE SHIP.
- THE WRECKED SEAMEN.
- ADVENTURES OF PHILIP ASHTON,
  - WHO, AFTER ESCAPING FROM PIRATES, LIVED SIXTEEN MONTHS IN SOLITUDE ON A DESOLATE ISLAND.
- EXPLOSION OF HIS B. MAJESTY’S SHIP AMPHION.
- LOSS OF H. B. M. SHIP LA TRIBUNE,
  - OFF HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA.
- BURNING OF THE PRINCE,
  - A FRENCH EAST INDIAMAN.
- WRECK OF THE SCHOONER BETSEY,
  - ON A REEF OF ROCKS.
- EARLY AMERICAN HEROISM.
- FINGAL’S CAVE.
- THE LOSS OF THE RAMILLIES,
  - IN THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.
- PRESERVATION OF NINE MEN,
  - IN A SMALL BOAT, SURROUNDED BY ISLANDS OF ICE.
- CAPTAIN ROSS’S EXPEDITION.
- LOSS OF THE CATHARINE, VENUS AND PIEDMONT TRANSPORTS; AND THREE MERCHANT SHIPS.
- WRECK OF THE BRITISH SHIP SIDNEY,
  - ON A REEF OF ROCKS IN THE SOUTH SEA.
- LOSS OF THE DUKE WILLIAM TRANSPORT.
- COMMODORE BARNEY.
- NAVAL BATTLES
  - OF THE UNITED STATES.
  - CRUISE OF THE WASP.
  - HORNET AND PENGUIN.
  - ALGERINE WAR.
- ADDRESS TO THE OCEAN.