With Drake on the Spanish Main
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About This Book
A classic tale of adventure on the high seas. From the 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...
Chapters (53)
- WITH DRAKE ON THE SPANISH MAIN
- PREFACE
- 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
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