Westward Ho! (Kingsley)

by Charles Kingsley

For works with similar titles, see Westward Ho!.

WESTWARD HO!

OR

THE VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES OF

SIR AMYAS LEIGH, KNIGHT,

OF BURROUGH, IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON,

IN THE REIGN OF HER MOST GLORIOUS MAJESTY

QUEEN ELIZABETH.

RENDERED INTO MODERN ENGLISH

BY

CHARLES KINGSLEY

New York: 46 East Fourteenth Street

THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.

Boston: 100 Purchase Street

TO

THE RAJAH SIR JAMES BROOKE, K.C.B

AND

GEORGE AUGUSTUS SELWYN, D.D.
BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND.

This Book is Dedicated

BY ONE WHO (UNKNOWN TO THEM) HAS NO OTHER METHOD OF EXPRESSING HIS ADMIRATION AND REVERENCE FOR THEIR CHARACTERS.

THAT TYPE OF ENGLISH VIRTUE, AT ONCE MANFUL AND GODLY, PRACTICAL AND ENTHUSIASTIC, PRUDENT AND SELF-SACRIFICING, WHICH HE HAS TRIED TO DEPICT IN THESE PAGES, THEY HAVE EXHIBITED IN A FORM EVEN PURER AND MORE HEROIC THAN THAT IN WHICH HE HAS DREST IT, AND THAN THAT IN WHICH IT WAS EXHIBITED BY THE WORTHIES WHOM ELIZABETH, WITHOUT DISTINCTION OF RANK OR AGE, GATHERED ROUND HER IN THE EVER GLORIOUS WARS OF HER GREAT REIGN.

C. K.

February, 1855.

CONTENTS.

 

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CHAP.		PAGE
I.	How Mr. Oxenham saw the White Bird	7
II.	How Amyas came Home the First time	21
III.	Of two Gentlemen of Wales, and how they hunted with the Hounds, and yet ran with the Deer	46
IV.	The two Ways of being crost in Love	60
V.	Clovelly Court in the Olden Time	79
VI.	The Coombes of the Far West	99
VII.	The true and tragical History of Mr. John Oxenham of Plymouth	106
VIII.	How the Noble Brotherhood of the Rose was founded	138
IX.	How Amyas kept his Christmas Day	152
X.	How the Mayor of Bideford baited his Hook with his own Flesh	179
XI.	How Eustace Leigh met the Pope's Legate	187
XII.	How Bideford Bridge dined at Annery House	201
XIII.	How the Golden Hind came Home again	222
XIV.	How Salvation Yeo slew the King of the Gubbings	229
XV.	How Mr. John Brimblecombe understood the Nature of an Oath	248
XVI.	The most Chivalrous Adventure of the Good Ship Rose	256
XVII.	How they came to Barbados, and found no men therein	269
XVIII.	How they took the Pearls at Margarita	274
XIX.	What befell at La Guayra	283
XX.	Spanish Bloodhounds and English Mastiffs	302
XXI.	How they took the Communion under the tree at Higuerote	321
XXII.	The Inquisition in the Indies	334
XXIII.	The Banks of the Meta	337
XXIV.	How Amyas was tempted of the devil	350
XXV.	How they took the Gold-train	367
XXVI.	How they took the Great Galleon	388
XXVII.	How Salvation Yeo found his Little Maid again	412
XXVIII.	How Amyas came Home the Third Time	423
XXIX.	How the Virginia Fleet was stopped by the Queen's Command	434
XXX.	How the Admiral John Hawkins testified against Croakers	454
XXXI.	The Great Armada	466
XXXII.	How Amyas threw his Sword into the Sea	480
XXXIII.	How Amyas let the Apple fall	495