Books with title Henry, the Castaway

Frank V. Webster was a fictional name given by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the first book packager of paperbacks designed for the little minds. This pen name was labeled on stories for young boys from the first years of 1900s through the 1930s. Bob the Castaway lets us keep an eye on the frolics of a juvenile playful trickster whose name was Bob Henderson, his parents' useless efforts to make him to change his manners, and his later sailing exciting escapades. Its full title is Bob the Castaway: or, The Wreck of the Eagle. Some of the books for boys written under the pseudonym of Frank V. Webster are as follows: Only a Farm Boy, Or Dan Hardy's Rise in Life; Tom the Telephone Boy, Or The Mystery of a Message; The Boy from the Ranch, Or Roy Bradner's City Experiences; The Young Treasure Hunter, Or Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska; The Young Firemen of Lakeville, Or Herbert Dare's Pluck; The Newsboy Partners, Or Who Was Dick Box?; The Boy Pilot of the Lakes, Or Nat Morton's Perils; Two Boy Gold Miners, Or Lost in the Mountains; Jack the Runaway, Or On the Road with a Circus. Bob the Castaway include contents on I. Bob Makes Trouble; II. Another Prank; III. A Strange Proposition; IV. Talking it Over; V. A Joke That Went Wrong; VI. Mrs. Henderson's Decision; VII. Bob is Delighted; VIII. Getting Ready; IX. Bob's Last Land Joke; X. Off on the Trip; XI. The "Eagle" Sails; XII. Some Jokes on Bob; XIII. Bob Tries a Prank; XIV. Mr. Tarbill Gets a Shock; XV. The Storm; XVI. Wreck of the Ship; XVII. Adrift in Small Boats; XVIII. Bob on an Island; XIX. Finding Mr. Tarbill; XX. Making the Best of it; XXI. More Arrivals; XXII. Afloat Once More; XXIII. A Serious Loss; XXIV. Days of Hopelessness; and XXV. Homeward Bound-Conclusion.

It is but a short time since the breath departed from his body; and judging by the appearance of the others, it may not be long before they will all follow him into another world. How weak and emaciated they appear, as if in the last stage of starvation! The boy and girl lie along the stern-sheets, with wasted arms, embracing each other. The tall man sits on one of the benches, gazing mechanically upon the corpse at his feet; while the other three also have their eyes upon it, though with very different expressions. That upon the face of the Irishman is of sadness, as if for the loss of an old shipmate; the Malay looks on with the impassive tranquillity peculiar to his race; while in the sunken orbs of the nondescript can be detected a look that speaks of a horrible craving—the craving of cannibalism.The scene described, and the circumstances which have led to it, call for explanation. It is easily given. The tall dark-bearded man is Captain Robert Redwood, the skipper of an American merchant-vessel, for some time trading among the islands of the Indian Archipelago. The Irishman is his ship-carpenter, the Malay his pilot, while the others are two common sailors of his crew. The boy and girl are his children, who, having no mother or near relatives at home, have been brought along with him on his trading voyage to the Eastern Isles. The vessel passing from Manilla, in the Philippines, to the Dutch settlement of Macassar, in the island of Celebes, has been caught in a typhoon and swamped near the middle of the Celebes Sea; her crew have escaped in a boat—the pinnace—but saved from death by drowning only to find, most of them, the same watery grave after long-procrastinated suffering from thirst, from hunger, from all the agonies of starvation.One after another have they succumbed, and been thrown overboard, until the survivors are only six in number. And these are but skeletons, each looking as if another day, or even another hour, might terminate his wretched existence.