Having been born in the seafaring town of Salem, Massachusetts, I, Ben Lathrop, had as my life's ambition the desire to ship before the mast. I was a lad of sixteen when in the year 1809, my took me to see his good friend, Captain Joseph Whidden, the master of a ship called The Island Princess.
This story is based on Verne's book, The Steam House. The Steam House is divided into two sections, called The Demon of Kanpur and Tigers and Traitors.
A reward of two thousand pounds will be paid to anyone who will deliver up, dead or alive, one of the prime movers of the Sepoy Revolt. He is commonly called Nana Sahib.
Many years ago, in Denmark, there lived a man and his three sons. The eldest son knew the whole dictionary by heart. The middle son knew every word that had been printed in the newspapers for three years back. Hans, the youngest son, was quite different. He was not so learned as his brothers so everyone called him clumsy Hans. But it is clumsy Hans who wins the princess at the end of the story.