Part 3

The Story of Molly Pitcher 137

The Voyages, Dangerous Adventures, and Imminent Escapes of Captain Richard Falconer 141

Marbot's March 150

Eylau. The Mare Lisette 162

How Marbot crossed the Danube 175

The piteous Death of Gaston, Son of the Count of Foix 186

Rolf Stake 191

The Wreck of the 'Wager' 195

Peter Williamson 213

A Wonderful Voyage 226

The Pitcairn Islanders 238

A Relation of three years' Suffering of Robert Everard upon the Island of Assada, near Madagascar, in a Voyage to India, in the year 1686 247

The Fight at Svolder Island 252

The Death of Hacon the Good 261

Prince Charlie's War 265

The Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition 324

The Story of Emund 346

The Man in White 354

The Adventures of 'the Bull of Earlstoun' 358

The Story of Grisell Baillie's Sheep's Head 366

The Conquest of Peru 371

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATES

'In the Borghese gardens practised that royal game of golf' Frontispiece

Just as his arm was poised I fired To face p. 10

Joan in church " 24

Joan rides to Chinon " 38

Joan tells the King his secret " 42