Dick Sand. Or, A Captain at Fifteen

The novel describes the adventures of passengers of the American whaling schooner brig Pilgrim, whose entire crew died as a result of a fight with a whale. It all started like that.

• The crew wanted to go whale hunting.
• Later they saw a sinking ship.
• At first, everyone thought that there was nobody alive on it.
• But suddenly a dog appeared there.
• The crew decided to save her.

• But they were unconscious.
• The crew decides to save them.

They found five more blacks, whose names were Bath, Austin, Acteon, Hercules and old Tom.