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Title: The Flamingo Feather

Author: Kirk Munroe

Release Date: May 2, 2005 [EBook #15746]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: Arrival of Admiral Ribault's Fleet]

THE FLAMINGO FEATHER

BY

KIRK MUNROE

Author of "SNOWSHOES AND SLEDGES," "THE PAINTED DESERT," "WAKULLA," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

THE FLAMINGO FEATHER

COPYRIGHT, 1887, BY HARPER & BROTHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY KIRK MUNROE

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. RENE DE VEAUX
II. A WONDERFUL DELIVERANCE
III. CHITTA'S REVENGE
IV. HAS-SE IS HELD PRISONER
V. THE ESCAPE OF HAS-SE AND RENE
VI. THE JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF FOOD
VII. CHITTA BECOMES A SEMINOLE
VIII. ON THE TRAIL
IX. A TRAP AVOIDED AND FRIENDS DISCOVERED
X. MUTINY AT FORT CAROLINE
XI. RENE'S RETURN
XII. ABANDONING THE FORT
XIII. ARRIVAL OF JEAN RIBAULT
XIV. A NIGHT OF TERROR
XV. RENE IN THE HANDS OF HIS ENEMIES
XVI. HAS-SE RECEIVES THE TOKEN
XVII. DEATH OF HAS-SE (THE SUNBEAM)
XVIII. THE FRENCH HAVE COME AGAIN
XIX. THE OLD WORLD ONCE MORE

ILLUSTRATIONS

ARRIVAL OF ADMIRAL RIBAULT'S FLEET . . . Frontispiece

RENE SLIPPED QUICKLY THROUGH THE GATE

"FAREWELL, TA-LAH-LO-KO!"

THE DEATH OF HAS-SE

The Flamingo Feather

CHAPTER I

RENE DE VEAUX

On a dreary winter's day, early in the year 1564, young Rene de Veaux,
who had just passed his sixteenth birthday, left the dear old chateau
where he had spent his happy and careless boyhood, and started for Paris.
Less than a month before both his noble father and his gentle mother had
been taken from him by a terrible fever that had swept over the country,
and Rene their only child, was left without a relative in the world
except his uncle the Chevalier Rene de Laudonniere, after whom he was
named. In those days of tedious travel it seeme