161

X.--How Donna Mercedes tempted her lover and how he
strove valiantly to resist her appeals 174

XI.--Wherein Captain Alvarado pledges his word to the
Viceroy of Venezuela, the Count Alvaro de Lara,
and to Don Felipe de Tobar, his friend 190

XII.--Shows how Donna Mercedes chose death rather than
give up Captain Alvarado, and what befel them on
the road over the mountains 200

XIII.--In which Captain Alvarado is forsworn and with
Donna Mercedes in his arms breaks his plighted
word 218

BOOK IV.

IN WHICH IS RELATED AN ACCOUNT OF THE TAKING OF LA GUAYRA BY THE
BUCCANEERS AND THE DREADFUL PERILS OF DONNA MERCEDES DE LARA AND
CAPTAIN ALVARADO IN THAT CITY.

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XIV.--Wherein the crew of the galleon intercepts the two
lovers by the way 231

XV.--Tells how Mercedes de Lara returned the unsought
caress of Sir Henry Morgan and the means by
which the buccaneers surmounted the walls 248

XVI.--In which Benjamin Hornigold recognizes a cross and
Captain Alvarado finds and loses a mother on the
strand 265

XVII.--Which describes an audience with Sir Henry Morgan
and the treachery by which Captain Alvarado
benefited 283

BOOK V.

HOW THE SPANIARDS RE-TOOK LA GUAYRA AND HOW CAPTAIN ALVARADO FOUND A
NAME AND SOMETHING DEARER STILL IN THE CITY.

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XVIII.--Discloses the way in which Mercedes de Lara fought
with woman's cunning against Captain Henry
Morgan 301

XIX.--How Captain Alvarado crossed the mountains, found
the Viceroy, and placed his life in his master's
hands 326

XX.--Wherein Master Teach, the pirate, dies better than
he lived 347

XXI.--The recital of how Captain Alvarado and Don Felipe
de Tobar came to the rescue in