LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS:

[His tired child was at his side uncomplainingly]

Ducking stool

"[I'll scratch your eyes out!]"

Once more he bent over the sleeping children

Kieft from the ramparts watched the burning wigwams

Stuyvesant

The squaw, with a yell of fear, wheeled to fly for her life

Blanche could not utter a word of consolation

Oliver Cromwell

["Peter the Headstrong," unable to control his passion, tore the letter into pieces]

Tomb of Stuyvesant

The door was thrown open, and the boy Robert entered to take a part in the scene

[His temper flamed out in words]

"Are you ready?"

Sir Henry Vane

"Our journey is not one half over!"

"[You are not lost, if you follow me]!"

[He fell upon his face in the mud and water with his gun under him]

He flung him down the front steps where he lay in a heap on the ground

"[Here! Shoot me! 'Fore God, a fair mark]!"

Ruins of Jamestown

[The ball struck four or five feet to Robert's left, and in front of him, splashing up a jet of water]

[Map of the period]