of my father's ghost--Unpacking
the treasure--Seek an interview with Walter Johnson--Two letters 257

CHAPTER XXII.

M. Oudin arrives--The Wedding Day--Division of the
spoil--Alec returns to Jethou--Wedding gifts--The end 265

APPENDIX.

A few words about the Channel Isles 271

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE ISLAND OF JETHOU _Frontispiece_ 1

THE OLD HOME AT BARTON 10

MAP OF THE ISLAND OF JETHOU 35

PLAN OF HOMESTEAD 43

MY PLOUGH 47

AN ANTEDILUVIAN CHARIOT 48

"I WAS SWAMPED IN A MOMENT" 61

THE "YELLOW BOY," PLANS, ETC. 81

A PORCINE MURDER 99

ROCKS AT SOUTH END OF SARK 101

THE MAIN PATH OF THE ISLAND 113

LA CREUX DERRIBLE 119

TOO LATE! 131

A GHOSTLY VISITANT 141

"ALONG THE RUGGED CLIFF PATH" 161

RESCUE OF ALEC DUCAS 167

THE PUZZLING DOCUMENT 186, 209

A TERRIBLE FALL 187

THE TENANT OF THE TREASURE HOUSE 223

LENGTHENING THE "ANGLO-FRANC" 235

[Illustration: Frontispiece--THE ISLAND OF JETHOU]

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JETHOU;

OR,

Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles.

CHAPTER I.

MY BIRTH AND HOME--MY PRETTY COUSIN--ACCIDENT TO THE
"KITTYWICH"--JOURNEY TO GUERNSEY--PLEADING TO BECOME A CRUSOE--MY
WISH GRANTED--OUTFIT SECURED--SAIL TO JETHOU.

That Crusoe of Crusoes, Alexander Selkirk, as I am aware, commences his
entertaining history with his birth and parentage, and as I am also a
Crusoe, although a very minor adventurer, I may as well follow the
precedent and declare my nativity.

I was born at the little vil