The Lonely Island by Robert Michael Ballantyne
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The Lonely Island, by R.M. Ballantyne
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Title: The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers
Author: R.M. Ballantyne
Release Date: June 7, 2007 [EBook #21747]
Language: English
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THE LONELY ISLAND; OR, THE REFUGE OF THE MUTINEERS, BY R.M. BALLANTYNE.
CHAPTER ONE.
THE REFUGE OF THE MUTINEERS.
THE MUTINY.
On a profoundly calm and most beautiful evening towards the end of the last century, a ship lay becalmed on the fair bosom of the Pacific Ocean.
Although there was nothing piratical in the aspect of the ship--if we except her guns--a few of the men who formed her crew might have been easily mistaken for roving buccaneers. There was a certain swagger in the gait of some, and a sulky defiance on the brow of others, which told powerfully of discontent from some cause or other, and suggested the idea that the peaceful aspect of the sleeping sea was by no means reflected in the breasts of the men. They were all British seamen, but displayed at that time none of the well-known hearty off-hand rollicking characteristics of the Jack-tar.
It is natural for man to rejoice in sunshine. Hi