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CONTENTS

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A Boy among the Red Indians	1
Casanova’s Escape	16
Adventures on the Findhorn	29
The Story of Grace Darling	41
The ‘Shannon’ and the ‘Chesapeake’	48
Captain Snelgrave and the Pirates	52
The Spartan Three Hundred	64
Prince Charlie’s Wanderings	68
Two Great Matches	105
The Story of Kaspar Hauser	113
An Artist’s Adventure	122
The Tale of Isandhlwana and Rorke’s Drift	132
How Leif the Lucky found Vineland the Good	153
The Escapes of Cervantes	161
The Worthy Enterprise of John Foxe	168
Baron Trenck	176
The Adventure of John Rawlins	186
The Chevalier Johnstone’s Escape from Culloden	193
The Adventures of Lord Pitsligo	207
The Escape of Cæsar Borgia from the Castle of Medina del Campo	213
The Kidnapping of the Princes	219
The Conquest of Montezuma’s Empire	224
Adventures of Bartholomew Portugues, a Pirate	326
The Return of the French Freebooters	330

PLATES

Montezuma greets the Spaniards	Frontispiece
The Findhorn	To face 36
Grace Darling	44
'Some of the Pirates … had thrown several Buckets of Claret upon Mm	60
The Ball hit the Middle Stump	108
He prepared to attack the Sentry	126
Montezuma greets the Spaniards	270
Cortés in the Temple of Huitzilopochtli	276
Montezuma assailed by Missiles	296