. True tales of travel and adventure, valour and virtue. TRUE TALES OF %mM miiUi ^hhvitmt, fate Mir firto. BY JAMES MACAULAY, , , AUTHOR OF all TRUE, GREY HAWK, ETC., AMD JV7TI/ THIRTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS. HODDER AND JSTOUGHTON, 27, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCLXXXIV. (/4// rights feservea.) Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Vinev, Limited, London and Aylesbury. CONTENTS. PAGE William Adams, the Pioneer Englishman in Japan iA Strange Election and a Stranger Auction . 13 Californias First Start 18 At the Court of the Great Mogul .... 24The Great Mosque of Delhi and the Taj Mehal AT Agra 44 The Last of


. True tales of travel and adventure, valour and virtue. TRUE TALES OF %mM miiUi ^hhvitmt, fate Mir firto. BY JAMES MACAULAY, , , AUTHOR OF all TRUE, GREY HAWK, ETC., AMD JV7TI/ THIRTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS. HODDER AND JSTOUGHTON, 27, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCLXXXIV. (/4// rights feservea.) Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Vinev, Limited, London and Aylesbury. CONTENTS. PAGE William Adams, the Pioneer Englishman in Japan iA Strange Election and a Stranger Auction . 13 Californias First Start 18 At the Court of the Great Mogul .... 24The Great Mosque of Delhi and the Taj Mehal AT Agra 44 The Last of the Great Moguls 50 The Story of Cleopatras Needle .... 54 A Persian Grand Vizier 61 Captain William Peels Ride through Nubia . 66 Sarawak and the Soudan 75 The Voyage of the Fox 82 Perils in the Ice .90 A Parliamentary Debate in Tahiti . . .103 Origin of the Gipsies no Garibaldi, the Italian Patriot and Hero . .123 Unbeaten Tracks in Japan 143 French Accounts of English Naval Victories . 155 130^1132 VI Contents PAGE The Battle of the Nile 167truetalesoftrave00macarich


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