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Wrecked on a Reef

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Contents.

Introduction 13
Chapter I.
Object of Our Expedition — the Schooner "Grafton" — Our Departure 		25
Chapter II.
My Comrades — A Tempest — We Arrive at Campbell Island 		29
Chapter III.
Uselessness of Our Explorations — I am Taken Ill— We Leave Campbell Island 		36
Chapter IV.
Appearance of the Seals — The Auckland Islands — a Night of Anguish — the Shipwreck 		43
Chapter V.
A Moment of Despair — our Encampment — a Combat of Sea-lions — Capture of One of These Animals 		52
Chapter VI.
The Blue Flies — Our Birds — Our First Joint of Roast Meat — we Project the Building of a House — Common Praye 		63
Chapter VII.
Building of the Framework and Chimney of Our Hut — Visit to the West Channel, and to the Monument Island 		69
Chapter VIII.
Completion of our Hut — I Manufacture Some Soap — From the Summit of the Mountain — Erection of a Signal-Post — the Cormorants 		77
Chapter IX.
A Massacre of Innocents — our Furniture — Adoption of Certain Regulations — the Evening School — our Pastimes 		89 page x
Chapter X.
A Grindstone — the Charts — a Temptation — Visit to the Eighth Island — the Patriarch of the PhocÆ 		102
Chapter XI.
We Erect Another Signal — a New Dish — My Reasons for Giving up Beer— our Parroquets — Dogs in the Island 		108
Chapter XII.
A Night in the Open Air — I Undertake to Tan the Skins of the Sea-Lions 		115
Chapter XIII.
The Snow-Storm — Migration of the Seals — Death of His Majesty, Royal Tom — the Aurora Australis, or "Southern Lights" — a Shock of Earthquake 		122
Chapter XIV.
Excursion to the west Channel — Discovery of an Ancient Encampment — Shipwrecks 		128
Chapter XV.
Distress — in the Recesses of the Gulf — Return of Plenty — a Moment of Happiness 		134
Chapter XVI.
The Peak of the Cavern — We are Surprised in a Thick Mist — Visit to the Central Harbour — the Currants — an Impracticable Idea 		142
Chapter XVII.
My Experiences as a Boot and Shoe Maker — our Despairing Conjectures — Return of the Summer Season — our Geographical Studies 		149
Chapter XVIII.
Project of Deliverance — Invention and Erection of a Forge-Bellows — Devotion of Everybody to the Common Work 		156
Chapter XIX.
Manufacturing our Tools — we Resolve on Adopting a New Plan 		162
Chapter XX.
Completion and Launch of the Boat — a Separation 		168
Chapter XXI.
Storms and Famine — land! — we Disembark at Port Adventure — our Removal to Invercargill 		176
Chapter XXII.
Musgrave Returns to the Aucklands, and Brings Back our two Companions — Narrative of his Voyage — the Dead Body at Port Ross 		185
Chapter XXIII.
Departure for Sydney — we Put into Port Chalmers — the Mystery of Port Ross is Explained — I Return to France 		196 page xi
Appendix
I.
Narrative of the Wreck of the "Invercauld" Among the Auckland Islands, By Captain Dalgarno 		201
II.
Wreck of the Ship "General Grant" — Sixty-Eight Dead — ten Survivors Confined for Eighteen Months Upon a Desert Island 		205
III.
The Sea-Lions 341" 		210
Commentaries
by Christiane Mortelier
I.
The Auckland Islands 		219
II.
FranÇois Edouard Raynal 		229
III.
Alphonse de Neuville: Illustrator of Wrecked on a Reef 		240
IV.
Captain Thomas Musgrave Frgs 		242
V.
Influence of Wrecked on a Reef on Jules Verne's Novels 		246
Christiane Mortelier 258
Acknowledgements 259
Glossary 260

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