CONTENTS.

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