OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY NEW YORK 



CASTAWAYS AND CRUSOES. Since the 

 beginning of navigation men have faced the dangers of 

 shipwreck and starvation. Scattered through the an- 

 nals of the sea are the stories of those to whom disaster 

 came and the personal records of the way they met it. 

 Some of them are given in this volume, narratives of 

 men who lived by their hands among savages on for- 

 lorn coasts, or drifted helpless in open boats. They 

 range from the South Seas to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 

 from Patagonia to Cuba. They are echoes from the 

 days when the best that could be hoped by the man 

 who went to sea was hardship and man's-sized work. 



CAPTIVES AMONG THE INDIANS. 



First of all is the story of Captain James Smith, who 

 was captured by the Delawares at the time of Brad- 

 dock's defeat, was adopted into the tribe, and for four 

 years lived as an Indian, hunting with them, studying 

 their habits, and learning their point of view. Then 

 there is the story of Father Bressani who felt the tor- 

 tures of the Iroquois, of Mary Rowlandson who was 

 among the human spoils of King Philip's war, and of 

 Mercy Harbison who suffered in the red flood that fol- 

 lowed St. Glair's defeat. All are personal records made 

 by the actors themselves in those days when the Indian 

 was constantly at our forefather's doors. 



FIRST THROUGH THE GRAND CAN- 

 YON, by Major John Wesley Powell. Major 

 Powell was an officer in the Union Army who lost an 

 arm at Shiloh. In spite of this, four years after the war 

 he organized an expedition which explored the Grand 

 Canyon of the Colorado in boats the first to make this 

 journey. His story has been lost for years in the 

 oblivion of a scientific report. It is here rescued and 

 presented as a record of one of the great personal ex- 

 ploring feats, fitted to rank with the exploits of Pike, 

 Lewis and Clark, and Mackenzie. 



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