Captain John Crane, 1800-1815
Captain John Crane, 1800-1815 by Thomas Wallace Knox is available here as the complete text, split into 556 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Walking to Boston.--Suspected to be
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV Overhauled by a British War-Ship.--Search for
- Chapter V The Flying Dutchman and His History.--Meeting a
- Chapter VI In Danger from a Waterspout.--Caught in a
- Chapter VII The Ghosts and How They were laid.--Admiral
- Chapter VIII A Congreve Rocket among Algerine
- Chapter IX Trouble between the United States and
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI How the Evelyn was lost.--I am transferred from
- Chapter XII A Voyage to China.--Crossing the Line.--Malay
- Chapter XIII David and I visit Our Old Home.--Return to
- Chapter XIV The Chesapeake and the Shannon.--Another Voyage
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII Safe Return to New York.--Offer of a New
- Chapter XVIII Destruction of the Guerrière by the
- Chapter XIX Escaping from a British Fleet.--Destruction of
- Chapter XX Prison Life at Dartmoor.--Reminiscences of
- Chapter XXI Released on Parole.--Go to Portsmouth.--Old
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