Carette of Sark
THE WEST COAST OF SARK AND BRECQHOU. The standing rocks are the AUTELETS. The first bay on the left is SAIGNIE; the next, PORT DU MOULIN; then behind the great rock TINTAGEU is PORT A LA JUMENT. The GOULIOT PASS seperates SARK from BRECQHOU; the house on BRECQHOU was in the dip just above where the white waves are breaking. The GALÉ de JACOB is close to the first cave.
AUTHOR OF WHITE FIRE HEARTS IN EXILE BARBE OF GRAND BAYOU JOHN OF GERISAU ETC.
WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS, FROM PHOTOGRAPHS OF SARK, SPECIALLY TAKEN FOR THIS BOOK
HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON MCMVII
WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
GOD'S PRISONER RISING FORTUNES A PRINCESS OF VASCOVY BONDMAN FREE OUR LADY OF DELIVERANCE JOHN OF GERISAU UNDER THE IRON FLAIL BARBE OF GRAND BAYOU HEARTS IN EXILE JOSEPH SCORER A WEAVER OF WEBS WHITE FIRE THE GATE OF THE DESERT GIANT CIRCUMSTANCE PROFIT AND LOSS THE LONG ROAD
TO WILLIAM FREDERICK COLLINGS, ESQ. Seigneur of Sark
AND
JOHN LINWOOD PITTS, ESQ., F.S.A. (Normandy) Managing Director of the Guille-Allès Library, Guernsey
AND ALL THOSE GOOD FRIENDS IN THE ISLANDS WHO HAVE SHOWN SO GREAT AN INTEREST IN THIS BOOK I INSCRIBE THE SAME IN HEARTY RECOGNITION OF MANY KINDNESSES
Sercq is a small exclusive land where the forty farm holdings to-day are almost identical with those fixed by Helier de Carteret in the time of Queen Elizabeth; where feudal observances which date back to the time of Rollo, Duke of Normandy, are still the law of the land; and where family names and records in some cases run back unbroken for very many generations.
John Oxenham
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CARETTE OF SARK
CONTENTS
HOW PAUL MARTEL FELL OUT WITH SERCQ
HOW RACHEL CARRÉ WENT BACK TO HER FATHER
HOW TWO FOUGHT IN THE DARK
HOW MARTEL RAISED THE CLAMEUR BUT FOUND NO RELIEF
HOW CARETTE AND I WERE GIRL AND BOY TOGETHER
HOW CARETTE CAME BY HER GOLDEN BRIDGE
HOW I SHOWED ONE THE WAY TO THE BOUTIQUES
HOW I WENT THE FIRST TIME TO BRECQHOU
HOW WE BEGAN TO SPREAD OUR WINGS
HOW I BEARDED LIONS IN THEIR DENS
HOW WE GREW, AND GROWING, GREW APART
HOW AUNT JEANNE GAVE A PARTY
HOW WE RODE GRAY ROBIN
HOW YOUNG TORODE TOOK THE DEVIL OUT OF BLACK BOY
HOW I FELT THE GOLDEN SPUR
HOW I WENT TO SEE TORODE OF HERM
HOW I WENT OUT WITH JOHN OZANNE
HOW WE CAME ACROSS MAIN ROUGE
HOW I LAY IN THE CLEFT OF A ROCK
HOW I FACED DEATHS AND LIVED
HOW I LAY AMONG LOST SOULS
HOW I CAME ACROSS ONE AT AMPERDOO
HOW WE SAID GOOD-BYE TO AMPERDOO
HOW WE FOUND A FRIEND IN NEED
HOW WE CAME UPON A WHITED SEPULCHRE AND FELL INTO THE FIRE
HOW WE WALKED INTO THE TIGER'S MOUTH
HOW THE HAWK SWOOPED DOWN ON BRECQHOU
HOW I FOUND MY LOVE IN THE CLEFT
HOW I HELD THE NARROW WAY
HOW WE WENT TO EARTH
HOW LOVE COULD SEE IN THE DARK
HOW LOVE FOUGHT DEATH IN THE DARK
HOW WE HEARD STRANGE NEWS
HOW A STORM CAME OUT OF THE WEST
HOW WE HELD OUR HOMES
HOW WE RAN AGAINST THE LAW FOR THE SAKE OF A WOMAN
HOW I CAME INTO RICH TREASURE
THE FORTY MEN OF SERCQ IN THE YEAR 1800