WITH DRAKE ON THE
SPANISH MAIN
BY
HERBERT STRANG
ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR BY ARCHIBALD WEBB
LONDON
HENRY FROWDE
HODDER & STOUGHTON
1908
OXFORD: HORACE HART
PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY
Copyright, 1907, by the BOBBS MERRILL COMPANY in the
United States of America
PREFACE
The romancer, in choosing as the setting for a tale the period of a manwho looms large in history, finds himself on the horns of a dilemma.He cannot place his fictional near his historical hero without eitherdwarfing the former until the young reader ceases to find himinteresting, or robbing the latter of some of the glamour with whichhistory invests him.
In the following pages I have tried to meet the difficulty by makingFrancis Drake the presiding genius of the story. The deeds of DennisHazelrig are akin to those of Drake; the same spirit of adventuredominates them: and when, in the course of the story, the real and thefictitious personages meet, it is, I trust, without loss of dignity toeither.
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