E-text prepared by David Edwards, Mary Meehan,
and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
()
from page images generously made available by
Internet Archive
(http://archive.org)
| Note: | Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/inhandsofcavedwe00hentiala |
In the Hands of the Cave-Dwellers
BY G. A. HENTY
Author of "With Roberts to Pretoria" "Won by the Sword" "To Herat andCabul" &c.
ILLUSTRATED BY WAT. MILLER
BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED
LONDON GLASGOW AND DUBLIN
"FOUR INDIANS STEPPED FROM AMONG THE TREES"
CONTENTS
| Chap. | Page | |
| I. | A Midnight Attack | 7 |
| II. | A Hearty Welcome | 23 |
| III. | An Ambush | 42 |
| IV. | A Great Ranch | 61 |
| V. | An Indian Raid | 81 |
| VI. | Hopeful News | 101 |
| VII. | The Pursuit | 120 |
| VIII. | The Cave-Dwellers | 140 |
| IX. | Rescued | 157 |
IN THE HANDS OF THE CAVE-DWELLERS
CHAPTER I
A MIDNIGHT ATTACK
It was late in the evening at San Diego, in the autumn of the year 1832;there was no moon, but the stars shone so brightly in the clear, dryatmosphere that it was easy to distinguish objects at some littledistance. A young fellow, in the dress of a sailor, was making his waythrough the narrow streets that bordered the port, when he hear
...