The story opens as a summer idyll around a hermit living in an old windmill, with a captain who has a glass eye and a wild night of storm at sea. In the second book a stowaway joins a pearl-fishing voyage to the South Sea islands, and the adventure carries its young heroes to castaway life in the weed-choked Sargasso Sea.
Old-fashioned boys’ sea adventure by a former naval surgeon; its picture of island peoples carries the colonial attitudes of its time. Download the free EPUB.