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In the Track of the Troops: A Tale of Modern War
In the Track of the Troops A Tale of Modern War Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne, James Nisbet JEFFRY CHILDERS, the hero and narrator of this tale, was introduced to me by ~Ir. Brain, a friend who, in the course of a pretty long acquaintance, has favoured me with numerous introductions to people of varied character-good, bad, and indifferent. :Mr. Childers was so importunate, and urged me with so much fervour to supervise his work-to poin... more »t his moral and adorn his tale-that I consented to do so on the distinct understanding that I should be entitled to verify all his facts, modify his sentences, reverse his objectionable judgments, and exclude everything that should in any degree savour of exaggeration. The intelligent reader will thus easily understand the relation that su b:: lists between Jeffry Child ers and myse If. Tn pursuance of this arrangement I sought and obtained permission-nay, was kindly invited-to make a brief sojourn on board of Her ~Iajesty's iii
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PAGE; CHAP I-REVEALS THE EXPLosrVENATURE OF MY EARLY CAREFR, 1; H-IS STILL MORE EXPLOSIVE THAN THE PREVIOUS, 17; IH-AN INTERVIEW WITH MEN IN POWER, 28; IT-A DAY WITH THE TORPEDOES, 42; V-TERRIBLE TORPEDO TALES FOLLOWED BY OVERTURNED; PLANS,; VI-TURK A~D BULGARIAN-A WRESTLING MATCH AND A; DISPUTE, ?; VII-THE BLACK CLOUDS GATHER,; VIlI-TREATS OF TORPEDOES, TERRIBLE CATASTROPHES, UNEXPECTED; MEETINGS, AND SUCH LIKE, ?; IX -IN WHICH LANCEY IS TRIED, SUSPECTED, BLOWN; UP, CAPTURED, HALF-HANGED, DELIVERED, AND; ASTONISHED, ?; X-INVOLVES LANCEY IN GREAT PERPLEXITIES, WHICH; CULMINATE IN A VAST SURPRISE,; XI-REFERS TO TWO IMPORTANT LETTERS AND A SECRET; 62; 79; 98; 109; 122; 141; MISSION, ? 162; XII-MY FIRST EXPERIENCE OF ACTUAL WAR, A~D MY; TIIOUGIITS THEREON, 169; XHI-SIlOWS WHAT SOMETIMES HAPPENS IN THE TRACK OF; TROOPS, ?; X;:V-TFLLR MORE OF WHAT OCCASIONALLY IlAPPENS IN TilE; TI!ACK OF TROOPS, ?; 188; 197; Vlll CONTENTS; PAGE; CHAP« less