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The Hispaniola Plate (1683-1893)

The Hispaniola Plate (1683-1893) by John Bloundelle-Burton is available here as the complete text, split into 794 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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The Hispaniola Plate (1683-1893) by John Bloundelle-Burton. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #52210.

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  1. Chapter I 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II An Old Bit of History 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV Cazalet's Bank 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V Captain William Phips 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI The Beginning of a Mutiny 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII The Ending of It 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX And the Preparations Against It 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X And How It Was Ended 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI They Have to Desist 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII The Bark "Furie." 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII The Old Man's Story 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV The Wreck Is Found 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV What the First Search Revealed 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI An Honest Man Arrives 15 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII An Alarm from the "Furie." 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII Treachery and Flight 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX The "Honest Man" in His True Colours 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX A Fight 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI The Villain's Den 49 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII The Treasure House 20 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII What Was in the Treasure House 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV The Middle Key 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV Nicholas Leaves the Island 18 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI The Narrative Ends 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII Off to the Virgin Isles 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII Drawing Near 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX Out of the Depths of a Far Distant Past 28 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX 23 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI The Solitude Is Interrupted 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII The Island's Owner 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII Joseph Alderly 36 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV 29 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV Beware! 24 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI "And Death the End of All." 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII The Owner of the Treasure 26 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII The Approaching Search 16 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX The Search 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  40. Chapter XL The End 13 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Hispaniola
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Plate
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Passed
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Tropics
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