ILLUSTRATIONS
Reading edition
Portrait of Captain Charles Boothby. From a miniature
Frontispiece
Page
The Start. From an old print 6
Gibraltar. A sketch from Drinkwater’s “Gibraltar” (1785) 18
Penelope Boothby. From portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds 118
Corunna. From an illustration in “Campaign of Lt.-Gen. Sir John Moore, K.B.” (1809) 216
Major Sir William Boothby, Bart. After portrait by Dance 229
Rafela, wife of Sir William Boothby, Bart. From portrait by Hoppner 231
Pen-and-Ink Sketches
From the Author’s Journal
Facsimile signature of Captain Boothby viii
Tail of Sea Monster 13
Representation of the Legend of St. Francisco di Paolo 43
Strange Bird on Fore Topsail Yard 135
Head and Claw of Strange Bird 136
The Deaf Corregidor 167
Bridge of Alcantara 181
Bridge of Benavente (?), destroyed 29th December 1808 200
Sketch Plan of Battle of Corunna 215
Diagram illustrating Ineffectual Firing of French Battery 225
Tomb of Sir John Moore 226
Facsimile signature of Sir John Moore 285