LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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Sketch of the Cruise of the Brig Covenant, and the probable course of David Balfour’s wanderings Frontispiece | |
“A main entrance it was plainly meant to be, but never finished” | 12 |
“And then there came a blinding flash” | 35 |
“Hoseason turned upon him with a flash” | 59 |
“The man . . . had leaped up, and caught hold of the brig’s bowsprit” | 75 |
“The song of the sword of Alan” | 94 |
“Two hands were put to the helm, and Hoseason himself would sometimes lend a help” | 120 |
“I still cried and waved to them” | 134 |
“He cursed me once more in Gaelic and took himself off” | 148 |
“The lawyer had caught him up, and held him in his arms” | 166 |
“I was now alone upon the rock” | 195 |
“So we . . . began to slip from rock to rock one after the other’’ | 203 |
“We were lying on our backs, each with a dirk at his throat” | 225 |
“And so here’s a toast to ye: ‘The Restoration!’” | 230 |
“But Robin . . . struck into the slow measure of a pibroch” | 264 |
“‘It is a very fine lass,’ he said at last” | 280 |
“And ‘Good evening, Uncle Ebenezer,’ said I” | 311 |