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Journal, sad close to a, 238.
Journey, a painful, 102, 153, 461.
a perilous, 373.

a terrible, 42.

an Indian, 457.
Joy, excessive, 295.
Judge, an unjust, 12.
Jungle, a rattan, 557.
Justice, prairie, 519.

King, a negro, 259.
Knife-sharpening, 518.

Lady's maid wanted, a, 29.
Lake, elephants in a, 550.
Lamp-making, 83, 293.
Land! Land! 301.
Landlord, a hard, 5.
Larner's stratagem, 502.
Latude-

Story of, 110.
Foolish trick, 110.
In the Bastile, III.
Vincennes, III.
Clever escape, 112.
Wolf and lamb, 112.
Epigrams, 113.
Prison valet, 113.
Plan of escape, 115.
Tools, 116.
Ladders, 117.
Classic names, 117.
Rope-making, 118.
Escaping, 120.

Success, 122.

Bad news, 123.

Benevolent Dutchman, 124.

Recapture, 125.
Bastile again, 127.
Prison friends, 128-131.
Serving the state, 129.
Sufferings, 130.
Plans revenge, 132.
Vincennes dungeon, 135.
Daring escape, 136.
Caught again, 137.
Life at Vincennes, 138.
Charenton, 141.
Lunatics, 143.

Released, 143.

Imprisoned again, 144.

Madame Legros, 146.

Liberty! 147.

Launch, preparing the, 209.

Lavalette, Count, escape of, 173.
trial of, 176.

Madame, cruel treatment of, 187.

Leap, a terrible, 151.

Leon, the pathetic story of, 406.
L'Estrange, story of, 158.

Life, a fight for, 498.

a leap for, 509.

Life, a lonely, 278.
a race for, 505.

on the Medusa raft, 382.
Lion adventures, 582.
and the zebras, 583.
encounter, a, 592.
face to face with a, 584.
Gerard's second, 581.
how Arabs attack a, 579.
pursued by a, 585.

seizes a cow, 588.

seizes a sentry, 591.

Lion's rage, a, 580.

respect for a missionary, 590.

Lions, cowardly, 590.

encompassed by, 588.
holding council, 584.

Log-hut, a lonely, 499.

London, a winter's journey to, 24.

Lord, the story of, 406.

Louis le Grand and the negro prince,

260.

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Pacific, alone on an island in the, 405.
Pambo, 527.

Panther, killing a, 480.
Paris, an escape from, 185.
Parliament, petitioning, 26.
Parole, a question of, 160.
Passion, a king's, 31.
Passport, obtaining a, 168.
Patient, a mad, 191.
Peasant, an honest, 6.
Piety, a scene of filial, 387.
Pirates, attacked by, 285.
captured by, 271.
cruelty of, 286.

escape from, 275.

Plot, a secret, 274.

Poison of the labarri snake, 520.

Rescue, a timely, 519.
Roatan Island, 276.
visitors at, 283.

'Rogue' elephants, 555.

elephant's charge, 558.
Rover, story of a, 253.
Russel, Colonel, 263.

Russian sailors, story of four, 288.
ship, loss of a, 370.

Sailors, ingenuity of Russian, 291.
story of seven poor, 233.
Samaritan, a good, 20.

Savages, an attack from, 327.
life among, 381.
treachery of, 374.

Scene, an exciting, 543.
Scenes, terrible, 466.
Scurvy, ravages of the, 237.
Sea-horses, catching, 225.
Seal, fight with a, 410.
Seamen, two hungry, 365.
Security, false, 425.
Sentinel, a watchful, 64.

Servant, an adroit, 168.

Sharks and the schooner's men, the, 363.

Port Louis, escape from the fortress of, Ship, a sinking, 310.

199.

fortress of, 193.

Post, a dangerous, 491.

Post-office, a novel, 209.

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cast on shore, a, 371.
foundering of a, 266.
the fever, 413.
the frozen, 302.

Shot, a desperate, 570.

a hazardous, 397.

a narrow escape from being, 282.

a powerful, 566.

an ineffectual, 563.

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Supercargo's narrative, a, 370.
Surprise, a disagreeable, 216.
a midnight, 470.
Swimming, extraordinary, 152.

Tartar, catching a, 273.
Thirst, sufferings from, 299
Tiger-hunting, dangers of, 572.
Tiger-shooting at night, 573.
Tiger's back, ride on a, 569.

jaws, between a, 568.
Timor, description of, 353.
joy at reaching, 353.
Tofoa, a sojourn at, 322.
Tools, prison, 116.
Tortoise, catching a, 249.
Torture, Indian, 471.

Tower, an escape from the, 23.
Traitor, a, 44.

Treachery well rewarded, 10.
Tree, a camel thorn, 582.

Trees, how insects destroy, 513.
Trenck, Baron-

Prison exploits of, 34.

Early life, 34.
Austrian cousin, 35.

Imprisonment in Glatz fortress, 35.
Escape, 36.
Recapture, 37.

Plotting to escape, 38.

A boastful swordsman, 39.
Schell, 39.
Escape, 40.

A night's wandering, 40.
Terrible journey, 42.
Narrow escape, 43.
Simple peasant woman, 43.
At Vienna, 44.
Betrayed, 44.

Magdeburg dungeon, 44.
Sufferings, 45.

Herculean labours, 47.

Grenadier Gefhardt, 47-56.
Brave Jewess, 48.
Disappointment, 49.

Star Fort cell and fetters, 50.
Again attempts to escape, 52.
Attempting suicide, 53.
Desperate, 54.
Removing fetters, 57.
Burrowing, 58.

Compassionate sentinel, 59.
Over-cautious, 60.

Tyrannical governor, 61.
Illness, 62.

Another attempt to escape, 63.
Watchful sentinel, 64.
Deprived of sleep, 66.
Ingenious stratagem, 67.

Trenck, Baron, continued —
An accident, 69.
Story of a mouse, 70.
Folly, 71.
Freedom, 72.

Trick, a foolish, Iro.

Trifles, disputing for, 401.

Trunk, power of an elephant's, 543.
Tuileries, escape from the, 189.
Tunnel, excavating a, 195.

Turkish man-of-war, engagement with a,
239.

Valet, a prison, 113.

- in love, a, 80.

Verdun, a prisoner's life at, 159.

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Story of, 148.
Early life, 148.

Carries stories to Sir Eyre Coote, 149.
Taken prisoner, 150.

Escapes from the fort, 151.

Marvellous adventures, 152.

Recapture, 153.

Hyder Ali's cruelty, 153.

Sufferings, 154.

Noble fellow-prisoner, 155.
Deliverance, 157.

Wretched appearance, 157.
Memorable voyage, 158.
Wintering on the Isle of Maurice, 233.
Wolf and the lamb, 112.
Woman, a captive, 380.

a compassionate, ror.
a drowning, 391.
a frozen, 304.

Wonderful preservation, 366.
Wrecked on the ice, 266.

Zebras and the lion, the, 583.

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