Chapter I: 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; the same spirit of adventure dominates them: and when, in the course of the story, the real and the fictitious personages meet, it is, I trust, without loss of dignity to either.

HERBERT STRANG.

CONTENTS

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