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The Swiss Family Robinson
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
PAGE
Storm-tossed--Wrecked--Deserted--Supper--We make swimming-belts for
the children--An anxious night--The gale moderates--We examine
our cargo--Jack introduces two new acquaintances--How shall we
get on shore?--Jack's plan--We adopt it--The use of a lever--Our
tub-boat completed--Another night on the wreck--We collect the
cargo--And embark--Jack's friends will not be left behind--Steer
for the shore--Once more on land--We erect a tent--Glue
soup--Jack makes the acquaintance of a lobster--Ernest shirks the
water--Oysters and salt--How shall we eat our soup?--Ernest
solves the difficulty--Fritz returns--The sucking pig--How to
open an oyster and how to eat it--The dogs devour the
agouti--Fritz's anger--Our first night in the new country, 1
CHAPTER II.
A morning consultation--Breakfast--Away on an expedition--Over the
stream and through the grass--An unexpected reinforcement--Search
in vain for our comrades--Rest by a stream--Fritz finds a "round
bird's nest"--Natural history of a cocoanut--Calabash trees--The
use of gourds--How to make a bottle--A lovely but lonely
scene--Sugar-canes--Monkeys of use--Cocoanut milk turned to
champagne--Turk kills an unfortunate mother monkey--Carry the
orphan home--Display our treasures--A sumptuous supper--Ernest's
penguin--Champagne turned to vinegar--A fight with jackals--A
curious sentinel--A visit to the wreck--We rig our craft--Stow a
cargo--Sleep on board--Floats for our herd--We embark--Encounter
a shark--Land--Relate our adventures, 19
CHAPTER III.
The mother relates her adventures--Proposes that we should build a
nest--How Jack treated the jackal skin--How the boys were
surprised by a bustard--How they found the mangrove tree--How
the dogs caught the crabs--We discuss the possibility of making a
house in the tree--To bed once more--We start for the wreck--The
shark again--Return to land--Franz's crawfish--Bridge
building--We pack up--A family removing in patriarchal style--A
prickly enemy--Jack shoots it--We reach our new home--Fritz rids
our poultry of an enemy--Little Franz finds the figs--Dinner--We
prepare materials for our nest--Flamingoes--Roast and tame--The
use of trigonometry--A cord carried over the bough--The rope
ladder made--We mount our tree--Sleep under the roots--The
building of the nest--Retire to roost for the first time, 44
CHAPTER IV.
A day of rest--A parable for the young people--Quiet
recreation--Geographical nomenclature--The margay and porcupine
skins made of use--An expedition to Tentholm--Potatoes,
potatoes--Tropical vegetation--The use of the karatas--Jack's
greediness and its punishment--Ernest discovers cochineal--Arrive
at Tentholm--The poultry rebellious--Return to
Falconhurst--Ernest roused out early--We collect wood for a
sledge--Master Knips turns thief--Franz's plan for the saving of
ammunition--Ernest and I take the sledge to Tentholm--Ernest's
laziness exemplified--He catches a salmon--We start for
home--Kill a kangaroo--And cook it, 73
CHAPTER V.
Jack and Ernest disappear--Fritz and I start for the wreck--The
boys' ambuscade--We form a raft--Ransack the vessel--Again
embark--A turtle in sight--Fritz harpoons it--The turtle acts as
"Steam Tug"--Safe ashore--Return home--Jack's clay field--A fresh
discovery--The mother's cellar--A trip to the wreck--The
pinnace--Jack's raid on the Lilliputians--A secret revealed--A
new method of grinding flour--Wholesome or
poisonous?--Bread-making in earnest, 92
CHAPTER VI
Now for the pinnace--Repeated visits to the wreck--The pinnace
built--How shall we cut her out--The difficulty solved--We fit
her out--Fire a salute--The mother's surprise--We visit
Falconhurst--Attend to our fruit trees--Athletics--The lasso--An
excursion--A bustard captured--Ernest discovers a magician--Jack
fights him--The Liane Rouge--We turn carvers--Ernest's alarm--The
old sow again--We discover a sleeping beauty--Return with it to
the camp--Knips pronounces our apples "good"--Return to
Falconhurst, 108
CHAPTER VII.
Fritz and I return to the Calabash Wood--Fritz shoots a ruffed
grouse--We come across waxberry bushes--Sociable grosbeaks--Fritz
captures a parrot--A
CHAPTER I.
PAGE
Storm-tossed--Wrecked--Deserted--Supper--We make swimming-belts for
the children--An anxious night--The gale moderates--We examine
our cargo--Jack introduces two new acquaintances--How shall we
get on shore?--Jack's plan--We adopt it--The use of a lever--Our
tub-boat completed--Another night on the wreck--We collect the
cargo--And embark--Jack's friends will not be left behind--Steer
for the shore--Once more on land--We erect a tent--Glue
soup--Jack makes the acquaintance of a lobster--Ernest shirks the
water--Oysters and salt--How shall we eat our soup?--Ernest
solves the difficulty--Fritz returns--The sucking pig--How to
open an oyster and how to eat it--The dogs devour the
agouti--Fritz's anger--Our first night in the new country, 1
CHAPTER II.
A morning consultation--Breakfast--Away on an expedition--Over the
stream and through the grass--An unexpected reinforcement--Search
in vain for our comrades--Rest by a stream--Fritz finds a "round
bird's nest"--Natural history of a cocoanut--Calabash trees--The
use of gourds--How to make a bottle--A lovely but lonely
scene--Sugar-canes--Monkeys of use--Cocoanut milk turned to
champagne--Turk kills an unfortunate mother monkey--Carry the
orphan home--Display our treasures--A sumptuous supper--Ernest's
penguin--Champagne turned to vinegar--A fight with jackals--A
curious sentinel--A visit to the wreck--We rig our craft--Stow a
cargo--Sleep on board--Floats for our herd--We embark--Encounter
a shark--Land--Relate our adventures, 19
CHAPTER III.
The mother relates her adventures--Proposes that we should build a
nest--How Jack treated the jackal skin--How the boys were
surprised by a bustard--How they found the mangrove tree--How
the dogs caught the crabs--We discuss the possibility of making a
house in the tree--To bed once more--We start for the wreck--The
shark again--Return to land--Franz's crawfish--Bridge
building--We pack up--A family removing in patriarchal style--A
prickly enemy--Jack shoots it--We reach our new home--Fritz rids
our poultry of an enemy--Little Franz finds the figs--Dinner--We
prepare materials for our nest--Flamingoes--Roast and tame--The
use of trigonometry--A cord carried over the bough--The rope
ladder made--We mount our tree--Sleep under the roots--The
building of the nest--Retire to roost for the first time, 44
CHAPTER IV.
A day of rest--A parable for the young people--Quiet
recreation--Geographical nomenclature--The margay and porcupine
skins made of use--An expedition to Tentholm--Potatoes,
potatoes--Tropical vegetation--The use of the karatas--Jack's
greediness and its punishment--Ernest discovers cochineal--Arrive
at Tentholm--The poultry rebellious--Return to
Falconhurst--Ernest roused out early--We collect wood for a
sledge--Master Knips turns thief--Franz's plan for the saving of
ammunition--Ernest and I take the sledge to Tentholm--Ernest's
laziness exemplified--He catches a salmon--We start for
home--Kill a kangaroo--And cook it, 73
CHAPTER V.
Jack and Ernest disappear--Fritz and I start for the wreck--The
boys' ambuscade--We form a raft--Ransack the vessel--Again
embark--A turtle in sight--Fritz harpoons it--The turtle acts as
"Steam Tug"--Safe ashore--Return home--Jack's clay field--A fresh
discovery--The mother's cellar--A trip to the wreck--The
pinnace--Jack's raid on the Lilliputians--A secret revealed--A
new method of grinding flour--Wholesome or
poisonous?--Bread-making in earnest, 92
CHAPTER VI
Now for the pinnace--Repeated visits to the wreck--The pinnace
built--How shall we cut her out--The difficulty solved--We fit
her out--Fire a salute--The mother's surprise--We visit
Falconhurst--Attend to our fruit trees--Athletics--The lasso--An
excursion--A bustard captured--Ernest discovers a magician--Jack
fights him--The Liane Rouge--We turn carvers--Ernest's alarm--The
old sow again--We discover a sleeping beauty--Return with it to
the camp--Knips pronounces our apples "good"--Return to
Falconhurst, 108
CHAPTER VII.
Fritz and I return to the Calabash Wood--Fritz shoots a ruffed
grouse--We come across waxberry bushes--Sociable grosbeaks--Fritz
captures a parrot--A