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Afloat in the Forest; or, a Voyage Among the Tree-Tops

Mayne Reid

The story begins with the Trevannion brothers, Ralph and Richard, who find themselves homeless and without their father's estate after the death of their father, Squire Trevannion.

"Afloat in the Forest; Or, A Voyage among the Tree-Tops" by Captain Mayne Reid is an adventure novel. The story begins with the Trevannion brothers, Ralph and Richard, who find themselves homeless and without their father's estate after the death of their father, Squire Trevannion.

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Twenty years ago, not twenty miles from the Land’s End, there lived a Cornish gentleman named Trevannion. Just twenty years ago he died, leaving to lament him a brace of noble boys, whose mother all three had mourned, with like profound sorrow, but a short while before.

“Squire” Trevannion, as he was called, died in his own house, where his ancestors for hundreds of years before him had dispensed hospitality. None of them, however, had entertained so profusely as he; or rather improvidently, it might be said, since in less than three months after his death the old family mansion, with the broad acres appertaining to it, passed into the hands of an alien, leaving his two sons, Ralph and Richard, landless, houseless, and almost powerless. One thousand pounds apiece was all that remained to them out of the wreck of the patrimonial estates. It was whispered that even this much was not in reality theirs, but had been given to them by the very respectable solicitor who had managed their father’s affairs, and had furthermore managed to succeed him in the ownership of a property worth a rental of three thousand a year.

Any one knowing the conditions under which the young Trevannions received their two thousand pounds must have believed it to be a gift, since it was handed over to them by the family solicitor with the private understanding that they were to use it in pushing their fortunes elsewhere,—anywhere except in Cornwall!

Contents

  1. 01The Brothers at Home.
  2. 02Chapter Two.
  3. 03The Brothers Abroad.
  4. 04Chapter Three.
  5. 05The Galatea.
  6. 06Chapter Four.
  7. 07Drifting with the Current.
  8. 08Chapter Five.
  9. 09The Galatea Aground.
  10. 10Chapter Six.
  11. 11The Monkey-Pots.
  12. 12Chapter Seven.
  13. 13The Gapo.
  14. 14Chapter Eight.
  15. 15The Echente.
  16. 16Chapter Nine.
  17. 17An Impassable Barrier.
  18. 18Chapter Ten.
  19. 19A Tropical Tornado.
  20. 20Chapter Eleven.
  21. 21The Galatea Treed.
  22. 22Chapter Twelve.
  23. 23A Dangerous Ducking.
  24. 24Chapter Thirteen.
  25. 25A Consultation in the Tree-Top.
  26. 26Chapter Fourteen.
  27. 27A Fracas Heard from Afar.
  28. 28Chapter Fifteen.
  29. 29The Jararáca.
  30. 30Chapter Sixteen.
  31. 31Hold On!
  32. 32Chapter Seventeen.
  33. 33The Paroquet.
  34. 34Chapter Eighteen.
  35. 35The Lliana Unloosed.
  36. 36Chapter Nineteen.
  37. 37Serpent Fascination.
  38. 38Chapter Twenty.
  39. 39The Water Arcade.
  40. 40Chapter Twenty One.
  41. 41The Syringe-Tree.
  42. 42Chapter Twenty Two.
  43. 43A Battle with Birds.
  44. 44Chapter Twenty Three.
  45. 45A Contest with Cudgels.
  46. 46Chapter Twenty Four.
  47. 47Chased by a Jacaré.
  48. 48Chapter Twenty Five.
  49. 49A Saurian Digression.
  50. 50Chapter Twenty Six.
  51. 51Treed by an Alligator.
  52. 52Chapter Twenty Seven.
  53. 53An Aqua-Arboreal Journey.
  54. 54Chapter Twenty Eight.
  55. 55A Timely Warning.
  56. 56Chapter Twenty Nine.
  57. 57Improvised Swimming-Belts.
  58. 58Chapter Thirty.
  59. 59Alligator Lore.
  60. 60Chapter Thirty One.

About this edition

Author
Mayne Reid
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
438 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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