Facing the Flag by Jules Verne

[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.]


FACING THE FLAG

BY

J U L E S   V E R N E

AUTHOR OF "AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS"; "TWENTY
THOUSAND LEAGUESUNDER THE SEA"; "FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON," ETC.

 

New York

THE F. M. LUPTON PUBLISHING COMPANY

PUBLISHERS


Copyright, 1897
by
F. TENNYSON NEELY


CONTENTS
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”

FACING THE FLAG.

CHAPTER I.

HEALTHFUL HOUSE.

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

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