Produced by Donald Lainson WESTWARD HO! by Charles Kingsley TO THE RAJAH SIR JAMES BROOKE, K.C.B. AND GEORGE AUGUSTUS SELWYN, D.D. BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED By one who (unknown to them) has no other method of expressing his admiration and reverence for their characters. That type of English virtue, at once manful and godly, practical and enthusiastic, prudent and self-sacrificing, which he has tried to depict in these pages, they have exhibited in a form even purer and more heroic than that in which he has drest it, and than that in which it was exhibited by the worthies whom Elizabeth, without distinction of rank or age, gathered round her in the ever glorious wars of her great reign. C. K. FEBRUARY, 1855. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. HOW MR. OXENHAM SAW THE WHITE BIRD II. HOW AMYAS CAME HOME THE FIRST TIME III. OF TWO GENTLEMEN OF WALES, AND HOW THEY HUNTED WITH THE HOUNDS, AND YET RAN WITH THE DEER IV. THE TWO WAYS OF BEING CROST IN LOVE V. CLOVELLY COURT IN THE OLDEN TIME VI. THE COMBES OF THE FAR WEST VII. THE TRUE AND TRAGICAL HISTORY OF MR. JOHN OXENHAM OF PLYMOUTH VIII. HOW THE NOBLE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE WAS FOUNDED IX. HOW AMYAS KEPT HIS CHRISTMAS DAY X. HOW THE MAYOR OF BIDEFORD BAITED HIS HOOK WITH HIS OWN FLESH XI. HOW EUSTACE LEIGH MET THE POPE'S LEGATE XII. HOW BIDEFORD BRIDGE DINED AT ANNERY HOUSE XIII. HOW THE GOLDEN HIND CAME HOME AGAIN XIV. HOW SALVATION YEO SLEW THE KING OF THE GUBBINGS XV. HOW MR. JOHN BRIMBLECOMBE UNDERSTOOD THE NATURE OF AN OATH XVI. THE MOST CHIVALROUS ADVENTURE OF THE GOOD SHIP ROSE XVII. HOW THEY CAME TO BARBADOS, AND FOUND NO MEN THEREIN XVIII. HOW THEY TOOK THE PEARLS AT MARGARITA XIX. WHAT BEFELL AT LA GUAYRA XX. SPANISH BLOODHOUNDS AND ENGLISH MASTIFFS XXI. HOW THEY TOOK THE COMMUNION UNDER THE TREE AT HIGUEROTE XXII. THE INQUISITION IN THE INDIES XXIII. THE BANKS OF THE META XXIV. HOW AMYAS WAS TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL XXV. HOW THEY TOOK THE GOLD-TRAIN XXVI. HOW THEY TOOK THE GREAT GALLEON XXVII. HOW SALVATION YEO FOUND HIS LITTLE MAID AGAIN XXVIII.HOW AMYAS CAME HOME THE THIRD TIME XXIX. HOW THE VIRGINIA FLEET WAS STOPPED BY THE QUEEN'S COMMAND XXX. HOW THE ADMIRAL JOHN HAWKINS TESTIFIED AGAINST CROAKERS XXXI. THE GREAT ARMADA XXXII. HOW AMYAS THREW HIS SWORD INTO THE SEA XXXIII. HOW AMYAS LET THE APPLE FALL WESTWARD HO! CHAPTER I HOW MR. OXENHAM SAW THE WHITE BIRD “The hollow oak our palace is, Our heritage the sea.”