



Produced by Donald Lainson





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.

C. K.

FEBRUARY, 1855.



CONTENTS


INTRODUCTION

I.     HOW MR. OXENHAM SAW THE WHITE BIRD

II.    HOW AMYAS CAME HOME THE FIRST TIME

III.   OF TWO GENTLEMEN OF WALES, AND HOW THEY HUNTED WITH THE HOUNDS, AND
           YET RAN WITH THE DEER

IV.    THE TWO WAYS OF BEING CROST IN LOVE

V.     CLOVELLY COURT IN THE OLDEN TIME

VI.    THE COMBES OF THE FAR WEST

VII.   THE TRUE AND TRAGICAL HISTORY OF MR. JOHN OXENHAM OF PLYMOUTH

VIII.  HOW THE NOBLE BROTHERHOOD OF THE ROSE WAS FOUNDED

IX.    HOW AMYAS KEPT HIS CHRISTMAS DAY

X.     HOW THE MAYOR OF BIDEFORD BAITED HIS HOOK WITH HIS OWN FLESH

XI.    HOW EUSTACE LEIGH MET THE