: Jules Verne
: Dick Sands The Boy Captain
: OTB eBook publishing
: 9783987448195
: Classics To Go
: 1
: CHF 1,80
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: Belletristik
: English
: 263
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Dick Sands, The Boy Captain appeared in 1878, and it is the epic of the slave trade. The description of the wilds of Africa, its adventures and its dangers, the savage hunting both of beasts and men, has always been a favorite among Verne's readers. It contains no marvels, no inventions, but merely, amid stirring scenes and actions seeks to convey two truthful impressions. One is the traveler's teaching the geographical information, the picture of Africa as explorers, botanists, and zoologists have found it. The other is the moral lesson of the awful curse of slavery, its brutalising, horrible influence upon all who come in touch with it, and the absolutely devastating effect it has had upon Africa itself. (Goodreads)

PART THE FIRST

CHAPTER I.

THE"PILGRIM."

On the 2nd of February, 1873, the"Pilgrim," a tight little craft of 400 tons burden, lay in lat. 43° 57', S. and long. 165° 19', W. She was a schooner, the property of James W. Weldon, a wealthy Californian ship-owner who had fitted her out at San Francisco, expressly for the whale-fisheries in the southern seas.

James Weldon was accustomed every season to send his whalers bo