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Title: Twice Lost

Author: W.H.G. Kingston

Illustrator: C.J. Stanilard

Release Date: May 16, 2007 [EBook #21493]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Twice Lost, by W.H.G. Kingston.

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A typical Kingston book, full of incident, and co-incidence. We
particularly liked the way in which the topic of the lost boy, Harry, is
introduced, and later on a boy who had been found by the natives of a
Pacific island, comes into the story, being the person who found one of
the ship's company who had been lost overboard in heavy weather. The
latter had made his way ashore by sheer grit and determination (being a
Sandwich Islander). They realise Harry is originally an English boy,
and take him on board, and away from his savage masters who had been
using him as a pearl-driver.

Much later on they decide to settle in Australia. Lo! and behold! the
people who had settled on the next station were Harry's parents.

It is a good story, well-told, and worth listening to or reading.

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TWICE LOST, BY W.H.G. KINGSTON.

CHAPTER ONE.

LAST DAY AT HOME--JOIN THE "HEROINE" AS A MIDSHIPMAN--BOUND FOR THE
PACIFIC--ORDERED TO TOUCH AT CAPE COAST CASTLE--ON THE LOOK-OUT FOR A
PIRATE--CHASE HER UP A RIVER--OUR BOAT ATTACKED--DICKY POPO BRINGS US
INFORMATION--FIGHT WITH THE PIRATES--A CAPTURE--A SCHOONER BLOWS UP--
DELIVER UP OUR PRIZE TO THE COMMODORE--PROCEED ON OUR VOYAGE.

The last day of my home-life came to an end. Pierce and I went to our
room and turned in to our beds, but not to sleep. We had still many
things to say to each other, though we had probably said them over and
over again before. I promised to write a journal, to show to him when I
came back from my first voyage; and he agreed to keep one, from which he
might make extracts when he wrote to me, so that I might know everything
that took place in our family circle.

Our fat