The Ocean Wireless Boys on the Pacific
The Ocean Wireless Boys on the Pacific by John Henry Goldfrap is available here as the complete text, split into 570 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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The Ocean Wireless Boys on the Pacific
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II The Ocean in a Rage
- Chapter III A Long Night
- Chapter IV The Derelict
- Chapter V The “Centurion.”
- Chapter VI A Mystery of the Seas
- Chapter VII An Old Enemy Oddly Met
- Chapter VIII “Land, Ho!”
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X Chumming with Savages
- Chapter XI The Cave of the Pearls
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII On the Reef
- Chapter XIV Battling Man-Eating Sharks
- Chapter XV A Message from the Deep
- Chapter XVI Alive on the Sea
- Chapter XVII An Encounter at Bomobori
- Chapter XVIII Donald Judson Again
- Chapter XIX He Tells a Strange Story
- Chapter XX A Traitor in Camp
- Chapter XXI A Memorable Night
- Chapter XXII Into the Jungle
- Chapter XXIII A Dangerous Tree
- Chapter XXIV Wireless at Work
- Chapter XXV A Jungle Hotel
- Chapter XXVI Prisoners of ‘Bully’ Broom
- Chapter XXVII At the Old Fort
- Chapter XXVIII The Free-Booter’s Demands
- Chapter XXIX The Rescue Party
- Chapter XXX In the Coils of a Python
- Chapter XXXI The Journey Resumed
- Chapter XXXII A Storm in the Jungle
- Chapter XXXIII The Giant Spiders
- Chapter XXXIV
- Chapter XXXV The Heart of New Guinea
- Chapter XXXVI Found at Last!
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