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mes of Peril (1881), Under Drake's Flag (1883), With Clive in India (1884), The Lion of the North (1886), Orange and Green (1888), The Lion of St. Mark (1889), By Pike and Dyke (1890), By Right of Conquest (1891), With Moore at Corunna (1898), With Kitchener in the Soudan (1903), and With the Allies to Pekin (1904). He died in 1902.
CONTENTS.
CHAP. Page
I. A FISHING VILLAGE 5
II. CAUGHT BY THE TIDE 15
III. A RUN FROM HARWICH 27
IV. THE WRECK 37
V. THE RESCUE 46
VI. ALTERED PROSPECTS 57
VII. ON BOARD THE WILD WAVE 69
VIII. ALEXANDRIA 78
IX. THE RIOT IN ALEXANDRIA 89
X. PRISONERS 99
XI. THE BOMBARDMENT 110
XII. FREE 120
XIII. AMONG FRIENDS 131
XIV. A SET OF RASCALS 143
XV. A THREATENING SKY 153
XVI. OLD JOE'S YARN 163
XVII. IN DANGEROUS SEAS 180
XVIII. A CYCLONE 191
XIX. CAST ASHORE 201
CHAPTER I
A FISHING VILLAGE
OF the tens of thousands of excursionists who every summer travel down by rail to Southend, there are few indeed who stop at Leigh, or who, once at Southend, take the trouble to walk three miles along the shore to the fishing village. It may be doubted, indeed, whether along the whole stretch of coastline from Plymouth to Yarmouth there is a village that has been so completely overlooked by the world. Other places, without a tithe of its beauty of position, or the attraction afforded by its unrivalled view over the Thames, from Gravesend to Warden Point, ever alive with ships passing up and down, have grown from fishing hamlets to fashionable watering-places; while Leigh remains, or at any rate remained at the time this story opens, ten years ago, as unchanged and unaltered as if, instead of being but an hour's ru