rand of the Dales_ 125

_Sir Richard Grenville_ 132

_The Story of Molly Pitcher_ 137

_The Voyages, Dangerous Adventures, and Imminent Escapes of
Captain Richard Falconer_ 141

_Marbot's March_ 150

_Eylau. The Mare Lisette_ 162

_How Marbot crossed the Danube_ 175

_The piteous Death of Gaston, Son of the Count of Foix_ 186

_Rolf Stake_ 191

_The Wreck of the 'Wager'_ 195

_Peter Williamson_ 213

_A Wonderful Voyage_ 226

_The Pitcairn Islanders_ 238

_A Relation of three years' Suffering of Robert Everard
upon the Island of Assada, near Madagascar, in
a Voyage to India, in the year 1686_ 247

_The Fight at Svolder Island_ 252

_The Death of Hacon the Good_ 261

_Prince Charlie's War_ 265

_The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition_ 324

_The Story of Emund_ 346

_The Man in White_ 354

_The Adventures of 'the Bull of Earlstoun'_ 358

_The Story of Grisell Baillie's Sheep's Head_ 366

_The Conquest of Peru_ 371

_LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS_

_PLATES_

_'In the Borghese gardens practised that royal
game of golf'_ _Frontispiece_

_Just as his arm was poised I fired_ _To face p._ 10

_Joan in church_ " 24

_Joan rides to Chinon_ " 38

_Joan tells the King his secret_ " 42

_The English Archers betrayed by the Stag_ " 64

_The Coronation of Charles VII_ " 68

_'Instantly a gust of wind blew her off the rock
into the sea'_ " 92

_'One man . . . sta