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Title: Donalblane of Darien

Author: J. Macdonald Oxley

Illustrator: W. Rainey

Release Date: September 14, 2010 [EBook #33722]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Cover art]

[Frontispiece: "HE PLACED THE CHILD UPON THE CHEST, AND HELD HIM THERE
THAT HE MIGHT NOT FALL OFF." p. 38.]

DONALBLANE OF DARIEN

BY

J. MACDONALD OXLEY,

_Author of_

"_Norman's Nugget_," "_In the Swing of the Sea_,"
_etc., etc._

_ILLUSTRATED BY W. RAINEY, R.I._

TORONTO:

THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY, LIMITED.

1902

CONTENTS.

CHAP.

I. BY WAY OF BEGINNING
II. DONALBLANE CARRIES HIS POINT
III. OFF TO DARIEN
IV. A RESCUE AND A RETREAT
V. ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
VI. A BRUSH WITH BUCCANEERS
VII. THE FOUNDING OF THE CITY OF DARIEN
VIII. A SUCCESSFUL EMBASSY
IX. IN PERILOUS PLIGHT
X. THE CHASE OF THE MANATEE
XI. THE MIDNIGHT ATTACK
XII. NEW YORK AND HOME

ILLUSTRATIONS

"HE PLACED THE CHILD UPON THE CHEST, AND HELD HIM THERE THAT HE
MIGHT NOT FALL OFF." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

"'YE'VE A GREAT LIKING FOR THE SEA, THEY TELL ME, LAD,' BEGAN MR.
BLANE."

"THE RAVENING SWINE WERE GAINING UPON HIM."

"GLARING DOWN UPON HIM ... THE MOST APPALLING EYES HE HAD EVER BEHELD."

"PRESENTLY RAYMON ROSE IN THE BOW, HARPOON IN HAND."

"CHANCED TO OVERHEAR A CONVERSATION WHICH MADE IT CLEAR THAT THEY HAD
DESIGNS UPON MR. PATERSON'S LIFE."

DONALBLANE OF DARIEN.

CHAPTER I.

BY WAY OF BEGINNING.

It was not just an ordinary sort of name, but one of those which made
you think "thereby hangs a tale." In this case the thought goes to the
mark, and the tale in question will be told after a fashion in the
following pages.

At the outset a quick glance back to times long past is necessary in
order to a fair start, and without a fair start it were hardly worth
going ahead.

As the seventeenth century drew to its close there came