CONTENTS.

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Ernest R. Suffling
  • PREFACE.
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
  • CHAPTER I.
    • My birth and home—My pretty cousin—Accident to the "Kittywich"—Journey to Guernsey—Pleading to become a Crusoe—My wish granted—Outfit secured—Sail to Jethou
  • CHAPTER II.
    • I take possession of the Island—Landing stores—A grand carousal—Farewell—Alone
  • CHAPTER III.
    • First thoughts and impressions—A tour of the Island and description
  • CHAPTER IV.
    • Farming operations—I make a plough and a cart—A donkey hunt—Dumb helpers—My live stock
  • CHAPTER V.
    • Canoeing—Fish of the place—The ormer and limpet—A curious fishing adventure—Queer captures from the sea—Rock fish—Construct a fish pond and water-mill
  • CHAPTER VI.
    • "Flapp," the gull—Surgical operation—The gull who refused to die—Taxidermy extraordinary—Feathered friends—Snakes
  • CHAPTER VII.
    • I build a curious "box-boat"—An unpleasant night at sea—My Sunday service—The poem, "Alexander Selkirk"—Its applicability to my lot
  • CHAPTER VIII.
    • A trip to St. Sampson's harbour—A horrid porcine murder—A voyage round Sark—Nearly capsized—Trip round Guernsey—The pepper-box—Curiosity of tourists
  • CHAPTER IX.
    • Harvest operations—Explore La Creux Derrible, and nearly lose my life—Crusoe on crutches—An extraordinary discovery—Kill a grampus—Oil on troubled waters—Make an overflow pump
  • CHAPTER X.
    • A storm and a wreck—The castaway—Dead—A night of horror—The boathouse destroyed—A burial at sea
  • CHAPTER XI.
    • Climate in Winter—Vision of my father—A warning voice—Supernatural manifestations—The falling rock—My life saved by my dog
  • CHAPTER XII.
    • A fairy pool—Wonders of the deep—Portrait of a poet—The cave of Fauconnaire—A letter from home and my answer to it
  • CHAPTER XIII.
    • Another terrible storm—Loss of the "Yellow Boy"—A ketch wrecked—I rescue a man from the sea, badly injured—He recovers
  • CHAPTER XIV.
    • Work and song—Sunday service—Build a larger boat, the "Anglo-Franc"—Collecting wreckage—Commence a jetty—Our cookery—Blasting operations—The opening banquet
  • CHAPTER XV.
    • Trawling for fish and dredging for curios—Some remarkable finds—A ghastly resurrection—The mysterious paper—The hieroglyphic—A dangerous fall—Hors de combat—Attempts to unravel the paper
  • CHAPTER XVI.
    • Yarns: The cabbages which hung their heads—The raft of spruce—Voyage of the "Dewdrop"—A lucky family—A deep, deep draught—The maire's cat
  • CHAPTER XVII.
    • The Will again—Searching for a clue to the paper—Barbe Rouge's Will—A probable clue—Hopes and doubts—Perplexed—A memorable trawl by moonlight—A real clue at last—The place of the skull found
  • CHAPTER XVIII.
    • Digging for the treasure—A noonday rest—The ghastly tenant of the treasure house—We find the treasure—An account of what we discovered
  • CHAPTER XIX.
    • Preparing to leave—A letter home—We lengthen and enlarge the "Anglo-Franc"—Re-christen her "Happy Return"—Love at first sight—Victualling and stowing cargo—Pretty Jeannette—The long voyage—Incidents en route—Vegetarians, and their diet—Yarmouth reached—Fresh-water navigation—My native heath
  • CHAPTER XX.
    • I surprise the old folks at home—All well—Is Priscilla false—We meet—The missing letters—A snake in the grass—Dreams of vengeance
  • CHAPTER XXI.
    • The "Happy Return" inspected—More of my father's ghost—Unpacking the treasure—Seek an interview with Walter Johnson—Two letters
  • CHAPTER XXII.
    • M. Oudin arrives—The Wedding Day—Division of the spoil—Alec returns to Jethou—Wedding gifts—The end
  • APPENDIX.
    • A few words about the Channel Isles
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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