By Robert Louis Stevenson
KIDNAPPED
BEING
MEMOIRS OF THE ADVENTURES OF
DAVID BALFOUR
IN THE YEAR 1751
HOW HE WAS KIDNAPPED AND CAST AWAY; HIS SUFFERINGS IN
A DESERT ISLE; HIS JOURNEY IN THE WILD HIGHLANDS;
HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH ALAN BRECK STEWART
AND OTHER NOTORIOUS HIGHLAND JACOBITES;
WITH ALL THAT HE SUFFERED AT THE
HANDS OF HIS UNCLE, EBENEZER
BALFOUR OF SHAWS, FALSELY
SO CALLED
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF AND NOW SET FORTH BY
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
WITH A PREFACE BY MRS. STEVENSON
Contents
Preface
1. I Set Off Upon My Journey to the House of Shaws
2. I Come to My Journey's End
3. I Make Acquaintance of My Uncle
4. I Run a Great Danger in the House of Shaws
5. I Go To the Queen's Ferry
6. What Befell at the Queen's Ferry
7. I Go To Sea in the Brig "Convenant" of Dysart
8. The Round-House
9. The Man With the Belt of Gold
10. The Siege of the Round-House
11. The Captain Knuckles Under
12. I Hear of the "Red Fox"
13. The Loss of the Brig
14. The Islet
15. The Lad With the Silver Button: Through the Isle of Mull
16. The Lad With the Silver Button: Across Morven
17. The Death of the Red Fox
18. Talk With Alan in the Wood of Lettermore
19. The House of Fear:
20. The Flight of the Heather: The Rocks
21. The Flight of the Heather: The Heugh of Corrynakiegh
22. The Flight of the Heather: The Moor
23. Cluny's Cage
24. The Flight in the Heather: The Quarrel in Balquhidder
25. In Balquhidder
26. End of the Flight: We Pass the Forth
27. I Come to Mr. Rankeillor
28. I Go in Quest of My Inheritance
29. I Come Into My Kingdom
30. Good-Bye