CHAPTER I.
THE SCHOONER.
The great Pacific is the scene of our story.
On a beautiful morning, many years ago, a little schooner
might have been seen floating, light and graceful
as a seamew, on ...
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One of the most popular, prolific, and influential writers of nineteenth-century boys' adventure stories and historical fiction, R. M. Ballantyne wrote around one hundred books, many set in exotic loc...
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Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader
R(obert) M(ichael) Ballantyne