Hair Breadth Escapes - Perilous incidents in the lives of sailors and travelers - in Japan, Cuba, East Indies, etc., etc.

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Hair Breadth Escapes, by T. S. Arthur This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Hair Breadth Escapes Perilous incidents in the lives of sailors and travelers in Japan, Cuba, East Indies, etc., etc. Author: T. S. Arthur Release Date: August 28, 2009 [EBook #29829] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HAIR BREADTH ESCAPES *** Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net HAIR BREADTH ESCAPES OR PERILOUS INCIDENTS IN THE LIVES OF SAILORS AND TRAVELERS IN JAPAN, CUBA, EAST INDIES, ETC., ETC. BY T. S. ARTHUR NEW YORK WORTHINGTON CO., 747 BROADWAY COPYRIGHT, 1889, BY WORTHINGTON CO. CONTENTS PAGE Pirate Life. 5 Captivity among the Japanese. 37 A Sea-Fight on the Cuban Coast. 91 A Winter in the Frozen Ocean. 125 The Shipwreck. 150 Voyage to the East Indies. 165 Home-Sickness of a Siberian. 189 5 ADVENTURES. Pirate Life. I served as assistant pilot on board the merchant vessel Dolphin, bound from Jamaica for London, which had already doubled the southern point of the Island of Cuba, favored by the wind, when one afternoon, I suddenly observed a very suspicious-looking schooner bearing down upon us from the coast.