[Redactor’s Note: Facing the Flag {numberV044 in the T&M listing of Verne’s works} is an anonymous translationof Face au drapeau (1896) first published in the U.S. by F. TennysonNeely in 1897, and later (circa 1903) republished from the same plates by Hurstand F.M. Lupton (Federal Book Co.). Two apparent errors, which occur also in thefrench editions, have been made: the replacement of “Sivan” by “Swan” and of“Roandoke” by “Roanoke”. This is a different translation from the one publishedby Sampson & Low in England entitled For the Flag (1897) translatedby Mrs. Cashel Hoey.]
New York
THE F. M. LUPTON PUBLISHING COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1897
by
F. TENNYSON NEELY
| CHAP | |
| I | Healthful House |
| II | Count d'Artigas |
| III | Kidnapped |
| IV | The Schooner “Ebba” |
| V | Where am I.--(Notes by Simon Hart, the Engineer.) |
| VI | On Deck |
| VII | Two Days at Sea |
| VIII | Back Cup |
| IX | Inside Back Cup |
| X | Ker Karraje |
| XI | Five Weeks in Back Cup |
| XII | Engineer Serko’s Advice |
| XIII | God Be with It |
| XIV | Battle Between the “Sword” and the Tug |
| XV | Expectation |
| XVI | Only a few more Hours |
| XVII | One against Five |
| XVIII | On Board the “Tonnant” |
The carte de visite received that day, June 15, 189—, by the directorof the establishment of Healthful House was a very neat one, and simply bore,without escutcheon or coronet, the name:
COUNT D’ARTIGAS.
Below this name, in a corner of the card, the following address was writtenin lead pencil:
“On board the schooner Ebba, anchored off New-Berne, PamlicoSound.”
The capital of North Carolina—one of the forty-four states of the Union atthis epoch—is the rather important town of Raleigh, which is