The Hermit Hunter
of the Wilds
BY
GORDON STABLES, C.M. M.D. R.N.
Author of “’Twixt School and College” “To Greenland and the Pole”
“The Naval Cadet” “Westward with Columbus” &c.
WITH FOUR PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED
LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY
CONTENTS.
| Chap. | | Page |
| [I.] | [ By the Firelight,] | [9] |
| [II.] | [ “It was on just such a night as this, sister,”] | [17] |
| [III.] | [ “The fearfulness of our situation can hardly be realized,”] | [28] |
| [IV.] | [ Among the Woods of Craigielea,] | [42] |
| [V.] | [ “The whole world is full of changes,”] | [53] |
| [VI.] | [ “Run, run!” cried Tom; “the man must not die yet!”] | [65] |
| [VII.] | [ “Here hangs his brother’s scalp,”] | [78] |
| [VIII.] | [ “Never before had Tom experienced such a feeling of awful danger,”] | [89] |
| [IX.] | [ “The whole sea of mist turned to clouds of mingled gold and crimson,”] | [101] |
| [X.] | [ “In the forests strange shrieks and sounds were heard,”] | [111] |
| [XI.] | [ “The trees went down before it like hay before the mower’s scythe,”] | [121] |
| [XII.] | [ “A shower of poisoned darts fell pattering on the stockade,”] | [132] |
| [XIII.] | [ The dying Ayah tells of Bernard,] | [142]
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| [XIV.] | [ “Filled with gold doubloons— Sirr, are ye listening?”] | [153] |
| [XV.] | [ “Next instant the ship was struck and staved,”] | [163] |
| [XVI.] | [ “A vast green and flowery valley surrounded by romantic hills,”] | [174] |
| [XVII.] | [ Strange Life on the beautiful Island,] | [185] |
| [XVIII.] | [ “He was convinced now he had seen a spectre and nothing else,”] | [197] |
| [XIX.] | [ “Under the grave you dug are gold and precious stones,”] | [205] |
| [XX.] | [ “O, Bernard, it is your father’s ship!”] | [214] |
ILLUSTRATIONS