The three boys conceal themselves in a hidden cave, but Ralph is captured when he sets out to see if the pirates have left, and is taken aboard the pirate schooner. Then more unwelcome visitors arrive in the shape of pirates, who make a living trading, or stealing, sandalwood. The Polynesians leave and the three boys are alone once more. The two groups are engaged in battle and the three boys intervene to successfully defeat the attacking party, earning the gratitude of the chief Tararo. ![]() ![]() Their first contact with other people comes after several months when they observe two large outrigger canoes land on the beach. At first their life on the island is idyllic food, in the shape of fruits, fish and wild pigs, is plentiful, and using their only possessions a broken telescope, an iron-bound oar and a small axe, they fashion a shelter and even construct a small boat. Three boys, fifteen-year-old Ralph Rover (the narrator), eighteen-year-old Jack Martin and fourteen-year-old Peterkin Gay, are the sole survivors of a shipwreck on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island.
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