: Round the World in Seven Days by Strang Herbert Michael A C Arthur C Illustrator - Adventure stories; Air pilots Juvenile fiction; Airplanes Piloting Juvenile fiction; Aeronautics Juvenile fiction; Voyages around the world Juvenile fiction

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CHAPTER.

PRELUDE

I THE CABLEGRAM

II EASTWARD HO!

V THE TOMB OF UR-GUR

VI WITH GUN RUNNERS IN THE GULF

INTERLUDE

X SOME PRAUS AND A JUNK

POSTSCRIPT

PRELUDE

He was approaching the eastern shore of Ysabel Island, whose steep cliffs were covered with a lurid bank of cloud. If the shore was like those of the other islands of the group, it would be, he knew, a maze of bays, islets, barrier reefs, and intricate channels amid which, even in calm weather, a vessel would run a considerable risk of grounding, a risk that would be multiplied in a storm. Anxiously noting the weather signs, Underhill hoped that he might reach a safe anchorage before the threatening cyclone burst upon him.

As is the way with cyclones, it smote the vessel almost without warning. A howling squall tore out of the east, catching the ship nearly abeam, and making her shudder; then, after a brief lull, came another and even a fiercer blast, and in a few minutes the wind increased to a roaring hurricane, enveloping the ship in a mist of driving rain that half choked the officers and crew as they crouched under the lee of the bulwarks and the deckhouse.

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