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Westward Ho!

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Elizabethan seafaring, rivalry with Spain, love, and imperial adventure drive Kingsley’s historical romance.

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Westward Ho!

Westward Ho! follows Amyas Leigh through Elizabethan England, the Spanish Main, privateering, and religious-political conflict. Charles Kingsley shapes naval adventure and national myth into a large historical romance of ambition, love, war, and exploration.

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Westward Ho!

by Charles Kingsley

TO

THE RAJAH SIR JAMES BROOKE, K.C.B.

AND

GEORGE AUGUSTUS SELWYN, D.D.

BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

By one who (unknown to them) has no other method of expressing his admiration and reverence for their characters.

That type of English virtue, at once manful and godly, practical and enthusiastic, prudent and self-sacrificing, which he has tried to depict in these pages, they have exhibited in a form even purer and more heroic than that in which he has drest it, and than that in which it was exhibited by the worthies whom Elizabeth, without distinction of rank or age, gathered round her in the ever glorious wars of her great reign.

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FEBRUARY, 1855.

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INTRODUCTION

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  1. 01Full text
  2. 02C. K.
  3. 03INTRODUCTION
  4. 04I. HOW MR. OXENHAM SAW THE WHITE BIRD
  5. 05II. HOW AMYAS CAME HOME THE FIRST TIME
  6. 06III. OF TWO GENTLEMEN OF WALES, AND HOW THEY HUNTED WITH THE HOUNDS, AND YET RAN WITH THE DEER
  7. 07IV. THE TWO WAYS OF BEING CROST IN LOVE
  8. 08V. CLOVELLY COURT IN THE OLDEN TIME
  9. 09VI. THE COMBES OF THE FAR WEST
  10. 10VII. THE TRUE AND TRAGICAL HISTORY OF MR. JOHN OXENHAM OF PLYMOUTH
  11. 11VIII. HOW THE NOBLE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE WAS FOUNDED
  12. 12IX. HOW AMYAS KEPT HIS CHRISTMAS DAY
  13. 13X. HOW THE MAYOR OF BIDEFORD BAITED HIS HOOK WITH HIS OWN FLESH
  14. 14XI. HOW EUSTACE LEIGH MET THE POPE'S LEGATE
  15. 15XII. HOW BIDEFORD BRIDGE DINED AT ANNERY HOUSE
  16. 16XIII. HOW THE GOLDEN HIND CAME HOME AGAIN
  17. 17XIV. HOW SALVATION YEO SLEW THE KING OF THE GUBBINGS
  18. 18XV. HOW MR. JOHN BRIMBLECOMBE UNDERSTOOD THE NATURE OF AN OATH
  19. 19XVI. THE MOST CHIVALROUS ADVENTURE OF THE GOOD SHIP ROSE
  20. 20XVII. HOW THEY CAME TO BARBADOS, AND FOUND NO MEN THEREIN
  21. 21XVIII. HOW THEY TOOK THE PEARLS AT MARGARITA
  22. 22XIX. WHAT BEFELL AT LA GUAYRA
  23. 23XX. SPANISH BLOODHOUNDS AND ENGLISH MASTIFFS
  24. 24XXI. HOW THEY TOOK THE COMMUNION UNDER THE TREE AT HIGUEROTE
  25. 25XXII. THE INQUISITION IN THE INDIES
  26. 26XXIII. THE BANKS OF THE META
  27. 27XXIV. HOW AMYAS WAS TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL
  28. 28XXV. HOW THEY TOOK THE GOLD-TRAIN
  29. 29XXVI. HOW THEY TOOK THE GREAT GALLEON
  30. 30XXVII. HOW SALVATION YEO FOUND HIS LITTLE MAID AGAIN
  31. 31XXVIII.HOW AMYAS CAME HOME THE THIRD TIME
  32. 32XXIX. HOW THE VIRGINIA FLEET WAS STOPPED BY THE QUEEN'S COMMAND
  33. 33XXX. HOW THE ADMIRAL JOHN HAWKINS TESTIFIED AGAINST CROAKERS
  34. 34XXXI. THE GREAT ARMADA
  35. 35XXXII. HOW AMYAS THREW HIS SWORD INTO THE SEA
  36. 36XXXIII. HOW AMYAS LET THE APPLE FALL
  37. 37CHAPTER I
  38. 38I'll give you a noble for it.”
  39. 39CHAPTER II
  40. 40I smote the gates of Exeter in twain;
  41. 41I built an abbey fair by Tavy stream.
  42. 42I strode across the Tavy stream: but he
  43. 43I don't understand much singing upon land,
  44. 44CHAPTER III
  45. 45I see him again.”
  46. 46CHAPTER IV
  47. 47I dreamt to mate in heaven, and wake in hell;
  48. 48CHAPTER V
  49. 49I will endure as a loyal subject must.”
  50. 50CHAPTER VI
  51. 51CHAPTER VII
  52. 52CHAPTER VIII
  53. 53CHAPTER IX
  54. 54I could fill up my time here with making verses.”
  55. 55CHAPTER X
  56. 56CHAPTER XI
  57. 57CHAPTER XII
  58. 58CHAPTER XIII
  59. 59CHAPTER XIV
  60. 60I entered it.”
  61. 61CHAPTER XV
  62. 62I would!” and Jack burst out blubbering.
  63. 63CHAPTER XVI
  64. 64CHAPTER XVII
  65. 65CHAPTER XVIII
  66. 66CHAPTER XIX
  67. 67I think.”
  68. 68I never shall see you more, I fear.
  69. 69CHAPTER XX
  70. 70CHAPTER XXI
  71. 71CHAPTER XXII
  72. 72CHAPTER XXIII
  73. 73CHAPTER XXIV
  74. 74I'm not overconfident of them yet.”
  75. 75CHAPTER XXV
  76. 76CHAPTER XXVI
  77. 77CHAPTER XXVII
  78. 78CHAPTER XXVIII
  79. 79I am sane or mazed, alive or dead.”
  80. 80CHAPTER XXIX
  81. 81I do not enter deeply here. Let her rest in peace.
  82. 82CHAPTER XXX
  83. 83CHAPTER XXXI
  84. 84CHAPTER XXXII
  85. 85CHAPTER XXXIII

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