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] |