La Soeur Agnes--Exeat--Nha-Nam again--Picking up the threads--Bo-Ha--Preparations for the campaign--With General Voyron's column--An error in the art of war--A big butcher's bill--Collapse of the rebellion--Stamping out the embers 248-301 CHAPTER VII The last struggles of a rebellion--Departure of Captain Plessier--Our new commander--Man-hunting--A friend in need--A false alarm--An unexpected rise in life--On the Brigade Staff 302-338 CHAPTER VIII General Voyron--Organisation of the Brigade--Piracy on the Lang-son railway--Politics and pacification--Topography and a tiger hunt--Among the Staff records--Colonel Gallieni--General Pernot--Hanoï--General Coronnat--Death of a friend--Adieu to the army 339-377 LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS NATIVE WOMAN CARRIER _Frontispiece_ TONQUINESE NATIVE TYPES _To face page_ 72 RIVER SCENE AT HAÏPHONG " 80 BOULEVARD PAUL PERT, HAÏPHONG " 86 THE FORTIFIED POSITION AT HOU-THUÉ. _From a sketch by a French Staff Officer_ " 100 SECTIONAL SKETCH OF THE REBEL DEFENCES AT HOU-THUÉ " 104 INTERIOR OF THE FORT AT HOU-THUÉ " 110 A NATIVE SPY " 136 PAGODA USED FOR AMBUSH " 152 WATER BUFFALOES " 184 A _SAMPAN_ ON THE RIVER NEAR PHULANG-THUONG " 258 REBEL RAMPARTS FACING POINT A. " 282 MAP OF TONQUIN. _Published by permission of General Frey and Messrs Hachette & Co. of Paris_ _End of Book_ A SOLDIER OF THE LEGION CHAPTER I The _Ministère de la Guerre_--The recruiting office--Would-be warriors--The Commandant--A repulse--Enlisted--Something about the Legion--Marseilles--The _Abd-el-Kader_--Oran--Sidi-bel-Abbes--In camp--Snow in Africa--Another Briton--Instruction of recruits--An American--The 3rd Battalion--Barrack-room pranks--Route-marching.