[Transcribers notes: The only changes made in this text are obvious printer's errors. Everything else remains unchanged. Words in _italics_ and =bold= denoted thus] SIR QUIXOTE OF THE MOORS =BUCKRAM SERIES.= 75c. each. SIR QUIXOTE OF THE MOORS. A Scotch Romance. By JOHN BUCHAN. LADY BONNIE'S EXPERIMENT. A quaint pastoral. By TIGHE HOPKINS. KAFIR STORIES. Tales of adventure. By WM. CHAS. SCULLY. THE MASTER-KNOT. And "Another Story." By CONOVER DUFF. THE TIME MACHINE. The Story of an Invention. By H. G. WELLS. THE PRISONER OF ZENDA. (_21st Ed_.) By ANTHONY HOPE. A stirring romance. THE INDISCRETION OF THE DUCHESS. By ANTHONY HOPE. (_8th Edition_.) TENEMENT TALES OF NEW YORK. By J. W. SULLIVAN. SLUM STORIES OF LONDON. (_Neighbors of Ours_.) By H. W. NEVINSON. THE WAYS OF YALE. (_5th Edition_.) Sketches, mainly humorous. By H. A. BEERS. A SUBURBAN PASTORAL. (_5th Edition_.) American stories. By HENRY A. BEERS. JACK O'DOON. (_2d Edition_.) An American novel. By MARIA BEALE. QUAKER IDYLS. (_5th Edition_.) By MRS. S. M. H. GARDNER. A MAN OF MARK. (_6th Edition_.) A South American tale. By ANTHONY HOPE. SPORT ROYAL. (_2d Edition_.) And Other Stories. By ANTHONY HOPE. THE DOLLY DIALOGUES. (_7th Edition_.) By ANTHONY HOPE. A CHANGE OF AIR. (_8th Edition_.) By ANTHONY HOPE. With portrait. JOHN INGERFIELD. (_5th Edition_.) A love tragedy. By JEROME K. JEROME. =HENRY HOLT & CO., NEW YORK.= [Illustration:"_He came at me with his sword in a great heat._"--P. 131.] SIR QUIXOTE OF THE MOORS _BEING SOME ACCOUNT OF AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF THE SIEUR DE ROHAINE_ BY JOHN BUCHAN [Illustration: logo] NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1895 COPYRIGHT, 1895, BY HENRY HOLT & CO. THE MERSHON COMPANY PRESS, RAHWAY, N. J. TO GILBERT MURRAY WHATSOEVER IN THIS BOOK IS NOT WORTHLESS IS DEDICATED BY HIS FRIEND. PREFACE. The narrative, now for the first time presented to the world, was written by the Sieur de Rohaine to while away the time during the long period and painful captivity, borne with heroic resolution, which preceded his death. He chose the English tongue, in which he was extraordinarily proficient, for two reasons: first, as an exercise in the language; second, because he desired to keep the passages here recorded from the knowledge of certain of his kins-folk in France. Few changes have been made in his work. Now and then an English idiom has been substituted for a French; certain tortuous expressions have been emended; and in general the portions in the Scots dialect have been rewritten, since the author's knowledge of this manner of speech seems scarcely to have been so great as he himself thought. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. ON THE HIGH MOORS, 1 II. I FARE BADLY INDOORS, 27 III. I FARE BADLY ABROAD, 58 IV. OF MY COMING TO LINDEAN, 76