The Nameless Island

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Excerpt from The Nameless Island: A Story of Some Modern Robinson Crusoes Amid the cheers of the band of Britishers the ensign was broken at the masthead, Ellerton was only just in time. Another dazzling flash enabled him to see the helpless form of the crippled seaman, Andy, finding the bull close to his heels, gripped a rope and swung himself into a position of comparative safety, The chief's canoe was paddled slowly towards the shore, Crash! fair in the centre of the lightly built fifty-feet hull struck the sharp stem, "A sail! a sail!" he exclaimed breathlessly, A huge turtle had crawled across the beach and... had set the alarm bell ringing, With fierce shouts the savages tore down the path straight for the barricade About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.