Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net KIDNAPPED KIDNAPPED THE ADVENTURES OF DAVID BALFOUR ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON _ILLUSTRATED By_ N. C. WYETH NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS KIDNAPPED BEING MEMOIRS OF THE ADVENTURES OF DAVID BALFOUR IN THE YEAR 1751 HOW HE WAS KIDNAPPED AND CAST AWAY; HIS SUFFERINGS IN A DESERT ISLE; HIS JOURNEY IN THE WILD HIGHLANDS; HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH ALAN BRECK STEWART AND OTHER NOTORIOUS HIGHLAND JACOBITES; WITH ALL THAT HE SUFFERED AT THE HANDS OF HIS UNCLE, EBENEZER BALFOUR OF SHAWS, FALSELY SO CALLED WRITTEN BY HIMSELF AND NOW SET FORTH BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1946 COPYRIGHT, 1905, 1913, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS Printed in the United States of America _All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without the permission of Charles Scribner’s Sons_ DEDICATION MY DEAR CHARLES BAXTER: