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AMID THE CHEERS OF THE BAND OF BRITISHERS THE ENSIGN WAS BROKEN AT THE MASTHEAD. See page 68

THE NAMELESS ISLAND

A Story of some Modern Robinson Crusoes

BY

PERCY F. WESTERMAN

Author of "The Young Cavalier," etc.

London C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. Henrietta Street 1920

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STORIES OF ADVENTURE.

UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME

Each Volume contains Eight Full-Page Illustrations by a well-known Artist

The Boys of the Otter Patrol.

A Tale of the Boy Scouts. By E. Le Breton-Martin.

Kiddie of the Camp.

A Scouting Story of the Western Prairies. By Robert Leighton.

Otters to the Rescue.

A Sequel to "The Boys of the Otter Patrol." By E. Le Breton-Martin.

The Clue of the Ivory Claw.

By F. Haydn Dimmock.

'Midst Arctic Perils.

By P. F. Westerman.

The Phantom Battleship.

By Rupert Chesterton.

Kiddie the Scout.

A Sequel to "Kiddie of the Camp." By Robert Leighton.

The Lost Trooper.

A Tale of the Great North-West. By F. Haydn Dimmock.

The Brigand of the Air.

By Christopher Beck.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE HURRICANE

II. AGROUND

III. ABANDONED

IV. THE LANDING

V. THE CAMP

VI. THE ANIMAL THAT WOULDN'T BE RESCUED

VII. THE EMBLEM OF EMPIRE

VIII. "A SAIL!"

IX. UNWELCOME VISITORS

X. STRANGE ALLIES

XI. THE FRUSTRATED SACRIFICE

XII. AT BAY

XIII. ELLERTON TO THE RESCUE

XIV. ROUTING THE SAVAGES

XV. A KNIFE-THRUST IN THE DARK

XVI. THE GALE

XVII. BACK TO THE ISLAND

XVIII. A SURPRISE FOR THE INVADERS

XIX. THE PRISONER'S ESCAPE

XX. THE ENEMY IS CORNERED

XXI. THE BUCCANEERS' CAVE

XXII. THE TREASURE CHAMBER

XXIII. "A SAIL! A SAIL!"

XXIV. A FALSE AND A REAL ALARM

XXV. THE GREAT INVASION

XXVI. A GREAT DISASTER

XXVII. THE LAST STAND

XXVIII. THE RESCUE

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Amid the cheers of the band of Britishers the ensign was broken at the masthead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece

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