_Wilson's Last Fight_ 1
_The Life and Death of Joan the Maid_ 19
_How the Bass was held for King James_ 92
_The Crowning of Ines de Castro_ 99
_The Story of Orthon_ 105
_How Gustavus Vasa won his Kingdom_ 114
_Monsieur de Bayard's Duel_ 122
_Story of Gudbrand of the Dales_ 125
_Sir Richard Grenville_ 132
_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
_The English Archers betrayed by the Stag_ " 64
_The Coronation of Charles VII_ " 68
_'Instantly a gust of wind blew her off the rock
into the sea'_ " 92
_'One man . . . stalked about the deck and
flourished a cutlass . . . shouting that he
was "king of the country"'_ " 196
_The Indian threatens Peter Williamson_ " 214
_'Another party of Indians arrived, bringing
twenty scalps and three prisoners'_ " 218
_The savages attack the boat_ " 230
_'The madman dwelt alone'_ " 242
_King Olaf leaps overboard_ " 256
_'In the Borghese gardens practised that royal
game of golf_ " 266
_'I will, though not another man in the
Highlands should draw a sword'_ " 272
_'He galloped up the streets of Edinburgh
shouting, "Victory! Victory!"'_ " 294
_Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo Huaco, the
Children of the Sun, come from Lake
Titicaca to govern and civilise the
tribes of Peru_ " 374
_In one cave the soldiers found vases of
pure gold, etc._ " 412
_WOODCUTS IN TEXT_