The Black Barque
The Black Barque by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains is available here as the complete text, split into 756 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The black barque by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #56017.
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The Black Barque
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- Chapter I I Seek a New Ship
- Chapter II Captain Howard
- Chapter III The Barque
- Chapter IV Shanghaied
- Chapter V In the Fo’c’sle
- Chapter VI I Become “Cock of the Walk”
- Chapter VII Two Kinds of Hand-Shakes
- Chapter VIII Our Bos’n
- Chapter IX I Make Another Friend
- Chapter X Yankee Dan and His Daughter
- Chapter XI We Make a Day of It
- Chapter XII How the Day Ended
- Chapter XIII A Surprising Salute
- Chapter XIV I Decide to Leave the Barque
- Chapter XV Others Decide Otherwise
- Chapter XVI A Taste of Cold Iron
- Chapter XVII Sir John and Miss Allen
- Chapter XVIII The Barque Has Ill Luck
- Chapter XIX And Still More Ill-Luck
- Chapter XX What Happened in Madeira
- Chapter XXI The Strange Brig
- Chapter XXII “Stand to It!”
- Chapter XXIII What the Captain’s Chest Held
- Chapter XXIV The Captain Shows His Mettle
- Chapter XXV We Hear of Long Tom
- Chapter XXVI We Repel Boarders
- Chapter XXVII Our Captain
- Chapter XXVIII My First Glimpse of Slavery
- Chapter XXIX We Lay in Our Cargo
- Chapter XXX I Suspect Treachery
- Chapter XXXI I Meet Cortelli
- Chapter XXXII
- Chapter XXXIII The Fight on Deck
- Chapter XXXIV The Cargo Breaks Loose
- Chapter XXXV Our Last Chance
- Chapter XXXVI The End of the Black Barque
- Chapter XXXVII The Last Strand of My Yarn
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- Struck
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- Beach
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- Havre
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- England
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