Illustrations
Reading edition
Shooting tongues of smoke from their great black throats Frontispiece
Facing page
Sawquehanna seemed to remember the voice 18
Decatur caught the Moor's arm 90
The last six hundred miles were the hardest 152
Nauvoo had handsome houses and public buildings 166
Wherever there was a stream explorers began to dig 186
The teams, exhausted, began to fail 200
Spanish boats pulled close to them 282