ILLUSTRATIONS

On the decks above were three hundred desperate andwell-armed natives[ Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
The Indians, panic-stricken at the sight of the oncomingtroopers, broke and ran[ 84]
Bowie, propped on his pillows, shot two soldiers andplunged his terrible knife into the throat of another[ 178]
In another moment the gun was pouring death into theranks of its late owners[ 260]