Produced by Charlie Howard and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) LIST OF VOLUMES IN THE PEEPS AT MANY LANDS SERIES EACH CONTAINING 12 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BELGIUM BURMA CANADA CHINA CORSICA EGYPT ENGLAND FRANCE GERMANY GREECE HOLLAND HOLY LAND ICELAND INDIA IRELAND ITALY JAPAN KOREA MOROCCO NEW ZEALAND NORWAY SCOTLAND SIAM SOUTH AFRICA SOUTH SEAS SWITZERLAND TURKEY WALES WEST INDIES A LARGER VOLUME IN THE SAME STYLE THE WORLD Containing 37 full-page illustrations in colour PUBLISHED BY ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W. AGENTS AMERICA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64 & 66 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK AUSTRALASIA OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 205 FLINDERS LANE, MELBOURNE CANADA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA, LTD. 27 RICHMOND STREET WEST, TORONTO INDIA MACMILLAN & COMPANY, LTD. MACMILLAN BUILDING, BOMBAY 309 BOW BAZAAR STREET, CALCUTTA [Illustration: GENERAL VIEW OF AJACCIO _Page 33._ _Frontispiece._ ] [Illustration] PEEPS AT MANY LANDS CORSICA BY ERNEST YOUNG, B.SC. HEAD MASTER, LOWER SCHOOL OF JOHN LYON, HARROW AUTHOR OF “A PEEP AT SIAM,” “THE KINGDOM OF THE YELLOW ROBE,” ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY E. A. NORBURY, R.C.A. LONDON ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK 1909 TO MY FRIEND AND FELLOW TRAVELLER A. E. DYSON CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. A PEEP AT THE ISLAND 1 II. A PEEP AT CORSICAN HISTORY 4 III. ALERIA AND THEODORE 10 IV. BONIFACIO 15 V. CALVI 22 VI. BASTIA 28 VII. AJACCIO AND NAPOLEON 33 VIII. CORTÉ 39 IX. PAOLI 44 X. IN BUSH AND FOREST 50 XI. THE VENDETTA 56 XII. WHEN THE END COMES 62 XIII. THE KING OF THE BANDITS 67 XIV. BY THE ROAD-SIDE 73 XV. ANIMALS 78 XVI. CHARACTER 82 XVII. SOME STORIES AND LEGENDS 86 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS BY E. A. NORBURY, R.C.A. GENERAL VIEW OF AJACCIO _frontispiece_ FACING PAGE VIEW ON THE EAST COAST viii BAKING OVEN, ALERIA 9 THE HARBOUR, BONIFACIO 16 CALVI 25 OLD HOUSES, BASTIA 32