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"The Spaniard swung round."
WITH DRAKE ON THE SPANISH MAIN
BY
HERBERT STRANG
ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR BY ARCHIBALD WEBB
LONDON HENRY FROWDE HODDER & STOUGHTON 1908
OXFORD: HORACE HART PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
Copyright, 1907, by the BOBBS MERRILL COMPANY in the United States of America
PREFACE
The romancer, in choosing as the setting for a tale the period of a man who looms large in history, finds himself on the horns of a dilemma. He cannot place his fictional near his historical hero without either dwarfing the former until the young reader ceases to find him interesting, or robbing the latter of some of the glamour with which history invests him.
In the following pages I have tried to meet the difficulty by making Francis Drake the presiding genius of the story. The deeds of Dennis Hazelrig are akin to those of Drake; the same spirit of adventure dominates them: and when, in the course of the story, the real and the fictitious personages meet, it is, I trust, without loss of dignity to either.
HERBERT STRANG.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I JETSAM
CHAPTER II SEA-GIRT
CHAPTER III A WRECK—AND MIRANDOLA
CHAPTER IV SALVAGE
CHAPTER V THE EDGE OF THE MARSH
CHAPTER VI THE SPANISH WHIP
CHAPTER VII AMOS TURNPENNY
CHAPTER VIII HALF-PIKES AND MACHETES
CHAPTER IX AMOS TELLS HIS STORY
CHAPTER X THE MAROONS BUILD A CANOE
CHAPTER XI THE MAIN
CHAPTER XII BENEATH THE WALLS
CHAPTER XIII THE TAKING OF FORT AGUILA
CHAPTER XIV VAE VICTIS
CHAPTER XV A LONG CHASE
CHAPTER XVI JAN BIDDLE, MASTER
CHAPTER XVII THE DEMI-CULVERIN
CHAPTER XVIII JUAN THE MAROON
CHAPTER XIX DRAKE'S CAMP
CHAPTER XX A RAID THROUGH THE FOREST
CHAPTER XXI MAIDEN ISLE AGAIN
CHAPTER XXII A FIGHT ON THE CLIFFS
CHAPTER XXIII BOMBARDED
CHAPTER XXIV THE LEAGUER OF SKELETON CAVE
CHAPTER XXV THE MULE TRAINS
CONCLUSION
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"The Spaniard swung round" Frontispiece. See p. 78
Map of Maiden Isle
Dennis saves Mirandola
"Captain singled out Captain"
"The sailor threw up his left hand to ward off the attack"
"A shot fell immediately in their wake"
Map to illustrate Drake's adventures
"The seaman flung him bodily at the fourth Spaniard."