| CHAPTER I. | SPLITTING ROOKS |
| CHAPTER II. | A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY |
| CHAPTER III. | RECONNOITERING THE TERRITORY |
| CHAPTER IV. | BEGINNING THE SIEGE |
| CHAPTER V. | SOLDIERS TWO |
| CHAPTER VI. | THE GREAT KAI BOK-SU |
| CHAPTER VII. | BESIEGING HEAD-HUNTERS |
| CHAPTER VIII. | CITIES CAPTURED AND FORTS BUILT |
| CHAPTER IX. | OTHER CONQUESTS. |
| CHAPTER X. | REENFORCEMENTS |
| CHAPTER XI. | UNEXPECTED BOMBARDMENT |
| CHAPTER XII. | TRIUMPHAL MARCH |
| CHAPTER XIII. | THE LAND OCCUPIED |
(1) The name by which George Leslie Mackay was known among the Chinese of north Formosa.
Up in the stony pasture-field behind the barn the boys had been working all the long afternoon. Nearly all, that is, for, being boys, they had managed to mix a good deal of fun with their labor. But now they were tired of both work and play, and wondered audibly, many times over, why they were not yet called home to supper.
The work really belonged to the Mackay boys, but, like Tom Sawyer, they had made it so attractive that several volunteers had come to their aid. Their father was putting up a new stone house, near the old one down there behind the orchard, and the two youngest of the family had been put at the task of breaking the largest stones in the field.
It meant only to drag some underbrush and wood from the forest skirting the farm, pile them on the stones, set fire to them, and let the heat do the rest. It had been grand sport at first, they all voted, better than playing shinny, and almost as good as going fishing. In fact it was a kind of free picnic, where one could play at Indians all day long. But as the day wore on, the picnic idea had languished, and the stone-breaking grew more and more