HAIR BREADTH ESCAPES
OR
PERILOUS INCIDENTS IN THE LIVES OF SAILORS
AND TRAVELERS IN JAPAN, CUBA,
EAST INDIES, ETC., ETC.
BY
T. S. ARTHUR
NEW YORK
WORTHINGTON CO., 747 BROADWAY
Copyright, 1889, By
WORTHINGTON CO.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Pirate Life. | 5 |
| Captivity among the Japanese. | 37 |
| A Sea-Fight on the Cuban Coast. | 91 |
| A Winter in the Frozen Ocean. | 125 |
| The Shipwreck. | 150 |
| Voyage to the East Indies. | 165 |
| Home-Sickness of a Siberian. | 189 |
ADVENTURES.
I served as assistant pilot on board the merchant vesselDolphin, bound from Jamaica for London, which hadalready doubled the southern point of the Island of Cuba,favored by the wind, when one afternoon, I suddenlyobserved a very suspicious-looking schooner bearing downupon us from the coast. I climbed the mast, with my spyglass, and became convinced that it was a pirate. I directedthe captain, who was taking his siesta, to be awakedinstantly, showed him the craft, and advised him to alterour course, that we might avoid her. The captain, a manof unfortunate temper, whose principal traits of characterwere arrogance, avarice, and obstinacy, scorned my counsel,and insisted that we had nothing to fear, as we wereperfectly well protected by the English flag.
We sailed on, while the schooner drew nearer, for abouthalf a league, when we observed that the deck o