The Boats of the “Glen Carrig”

Being an account of their Adventures in the Strange places of the Earth, after the foundering of the good ship Glen Carrig through striking upon a hidden rock in the unknown seas to the Southward. As told by John Winterstraw, Gent., to his Son James Winterstraw, in the year 1757, and by him committed very properly and legibly to manuscript.

by

William Hope Hodgson

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Table of Contents

  1. The Land of Lonesomeness
  2. The Ship in the Creek
  3. The Thing That Made Search
  4. The Two Faces
  5. The Great Storm
  6. The Weed-Choked Sea
  7. The Island in the Weed
  8. The Noises in the Valley
  9. What Happened in the Dusk
  10. The Light in the Weed
  11. The Signals From the Ship
  12. The Making of the Great Bow
  13. The Weed Men
  14. In Communication
  15. Aboard the Hulk
  16. Freed
  17. How We Came to Our Own Country

Madre Mia

People may say thou art no longer young
And yet, to me, thy youth was yesterday,
A yesterday that seems
Still mingled with my dreams.
Ah! how the years have o’er thee flung
Their soft mantilla, grey.

And e’en to them thou art not over old;
How could’st thou be! Thy hair
Hast scarcely lost its deep old glorious dark:
Thy face is scarcely lined. No mark
Destroys its calm serenity. Like gold
Of evening light, when winds scarce stir,
The soul-light of thy face is pure as prayer.

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