For many years these six individuals struggled alone against a variety of trials and privations, till at length another storm brought the English despatch-boat _Nelson_ within reach of their signals.

Such is a brief outline of the events recorded in the _Swiss Family Robinson_.
The present volume is virtually a continuation of this narrative.

The careers of the four sons--Frank, Ernest, Fritz, and Jack--are taken up where the preceding chronicler left them off.

The subsequent adventures of these four young men, by flood and field, are faithfully detailed.

With these particulars are mingled the experiences of another interesting family that afterwards became dwellers in the same territory; as are also the sayings and doings of a weather-beaten sailor--Willis the Pilot.
The scene is laid chiefly in the South Seas, and the narrative illustrates the geography and ethnology of that section of the Far-West.