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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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Charles Kingsley died in 1875; the work was first published around 1855. These dates support the public-domain basis for this English edition.
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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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- 01Full text
- 02C. K.
- 03INTRODUCTION
- 04I. HOW MR. OXENHAM SAW THE WHITE BIRD
- 05II. HOW AMYAS CAME HOME THE FIRST TIME
- 06III. OF TWO GENTLEMEN OF WALES, AND HOW THEY HUNTED WITH THE HOUNDS, AND YET RAN WITH THE DEER
- 07IV. THE TWO WAYS OF BEING CROST IN LOVE
- 08V. CLOVELLY COURT IN THE OLDEN TIME
- 09VI. THE COMBES OF THE FAR WEST
- 10VII. THE TRUE AND TRAGICAL HISTORY OF MR. JOHN OXENHAM OF PLYMOUTH
- 11VIII. HOW THE NOBLE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE WAS FOUNDED
- 12IX. HOW AMYAS KEPT HIS CHRISTMAS DAY
- 13X. HOW THE MAYOR OF BIDEFORD BAITED HIS HOOK WITH HIS OWN FLESH
- 14XI. HOW EUSTACE LEIGH MET THE POPE'S LEGATE
- 15XII. HOW BIDEFORD BRIDGE DINED AT ANNERY HOUSE
- 16XIII. HOW THE GOLDEN HIND CAME HOME AGAIN
- 17XIV. HOW SALVATION YEO SLEW THE KING OF THE GUBBINGS
- 18XV. HOW MR. JOHN BRIMBLECOMBE UNDERSTOOD THE NATURE OF AN OATH
- 19XVI. THE MOST CHIVALROUS ADVENTURE OF THE GOOD SHIP ROSE
- 20XVII. HOW THEY CAME TO BARBADOS, AND FOUND NO MEN THEREIN
- 21XVIII. HOW THEY TOOK THE PEARLS AT MARGARITA
- 22XIX. WHAT BEFELL AT LA GUAYRA
- 23XX. SPANISH BLOODHOUNDS AND ENGLISH MASTIFFS
- 24XXI. HOW THEY TOOK THE COMMUNION UNDER THE TREE AT HIGUEROTE
- 25XXII. THE INQUISITION IN THE INDIES
- 26XXIII. THE BANKS OF THE META
- 27XXIV. HOW AMYAS WAS TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL
- 28XXV. HOW THEY TOOK THE GOLD-TRAIN
- 29XXVI. HOW THEY TOOK THE GREAT GALLEON
- 30XXVII. HOW SALVATION YEO FOUND HIS LITTLE MAID AGAIN
- 31XXVIII.HOW AMYAS CAME HOME THE THIRD TIME
- 32XXIX. HOW THE VIRGINIA FLEET WAS STOPPED BY THE QUEEN'S COMMAND
- 33XXX. HOW THE ADMIRAL JOHN HAWKINS TESTIFIED AGAINST CROAKERS
- 34XXXI. THE GREAT ARMADA
- 35XXXII. HOW AMYAS THREW HIS SWORD INTO THE SEA
- 36XXXIII. HOW AMYAS LET THE APPLE FALL
- 37CHAPTER I
- 38I'll give you a noble for it.”
- 39CHAPTER II
- 40I smote the gates of Exeter in twain;
- 41I built an abbey fair by Tavy stream.
- 42I strode across the Tavy stream: but he
- 43I don't understand much singing upon land,
- 44CHAPTER III
- 45I see him again.”
- 46CHAPTER IV
- 47I dreamt to mate in heaven, and wake in hell;
- 48CHAPTER V
- 49I will endure as a loyal subject must.”
- 50CHAPTER VI
- 51CHAPTER VII
- 52CHAPTER VIII
- 53CHAPTER IX
- 54I could fill up my time here with making verses.”
- 55CHAPTER X
- 56CHAPTER XI
- 57CHAPTER XII
- 58CHAPTER XIII
- 59CHAPTER XIV
- 60I entered it.”
- 61CHAPTER XV
- 62I would!” and Jack burst out blubbering.
- 63CHAPTER XVI
- 64CHAPTER XVII
- 65CHAPTER XVIII
- 66CHAPTER XIX
- 67I think.”
- 68I never shall see you more, I fear.
- 69CHAPTER XX
- 70CHAPTER XXI
- 71CHAPTER XXII
- 72CHAPTER XXIII
- 73CHAPTER XXIV
- 74I'm not overconfident of them yet.”
- 75CHAPTER XXV
- 76CHAPTER XXVI
- 77CHAPTER XXVII
- 78CHAPTER XXVIII
- 79I am sane or mazed, alive or dead.”
- 80CHAPTER XXIX
- 81I do not enter deeply here. Let her rest in peace.
- 82CHAPTER XXX
- 83CHAPTER XXXI
- 84CHAPTER XXXII
- 85CHAPTER XXXIII
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