Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Marcia Brooks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SWANSTON EDITION VOLUME I _Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies have been printed, of which only Two Thousand Copies are for sale._ _This is No. 1678_ [Illustration: AN INLAND VOYAGE TITLE-PAGE DESIGNED BY MR. WALTER CRANE] THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW LANG VOLUME ONE LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND WINDUS: IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY MDCCCCXI ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION TO THE SWANSTON EDITION ix AN INLAND VOYAGE ANTWERP TO BOOM 7 ON THE WILLEBROEK CANAL 11 THE ROYAL SPORT NAUTIQUE 16 AT MAUBEUGE 21 ON THE SAMBRE CANALISED: TO QUARTES 26 PONT-SUR-SAMBRE: WE ARE PEDLARS 31 THE TRAVELLING MERCHANT 36 ON THE SAMBRE CANALISED: TO LANDRECIES 41 AT LANDRECIES 46 SAMBRE AND OISE CANAL: CANAL BOATS 50 THE OISE IN FLOOD 55 ORIGNY SAINTE-BENOITE: A BY-DAY 62 THE COMPANY AT TABLE 68 DOWN THE OISE: TO MOY 74 LA FERE OF CURSED MEMORY 79 DOWN THE OISE: THROUGH THE GOLDEN VALLEY 84 NOYON CATHEDRAL 86 DOWN THE OISE: TO COMPIEGNE 91 AT COMPIEGNE 94 CHANGED TIMES 99 DOWN THE OISE: CHURCH INTERIORS 105 PRECY AND THE MARIONNETTES 111 BACK TO THE WORLD 120 EPILOGUE 122 TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY IN THE CEVENNES VELAY THE DONKEY, THE PACK, AND THE PACK-SADDLE 143 THE GREEN DONKEY-DRIVER 149 I HAVE A GOAD 158 UPPER GEVAUDAN A CAMP IN THE DARK 167 CHEYLARD AND LUC 177 OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS FATHER APOLLINARIS 183 THE MONKS 188 THE BOARDERS 195 UPPER GEVAUDAN (_continued_) ACROSS THE GOULET 203 A NIGHT AMONG THE PINES 206 THE COUNTRY OF THE CAMISARDS ACROSS THE LOZERE 213 PONT DE MONTVERT 218