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

eBooks@Adelaide
2004


Table of Contents

PREFACE

DEDICATION

CHAPTER I

I SET OFF UPON MY JOURNEY TO THE HOUSE OF SHAWS

CHAPTER II

I COME TO MY JOURNEY’S END

CHAPTER III

I MAKE ACQUAINTANCE OF MY UNCLE

CHAPTER IV

I RUN A GREAT DANGER IN THE HOUSE OF SHAWS

CHAPTER V

I GO TO THE QUEEN’S FERRY

CHAPTER VI

WHAT BEFELL AT THE QUEEN’S FERRY

CHAPTER VII

I GO TO SEA IN THE BRIG “COVENANT” OF DYSART

CHAPTER VIII

THE ROUND–HOUSE

CHAPTER IX

THE MAN WITH THE BELT OF GOLD

CHAPTER X

THE SIEGE OF THE ROUND–HOUSE

CHAPTER XI

THE CAPTAIN KNUCKLES UNDER

CHAPTER XII

I HEAR OF THE “RED FOX”

CHAPTER XIII

THE LOSS OF THE BRIG

CHAPTER XIV

THE ISLET

CHAPTER XV

THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: THROUGH THE ISLE OF MULL

CHAPTER XVI

THE LAD WITH THE SILVER BUTTON: ACROSS MORVEN

CHAPTER XVII

THE DEATH OF THE RED FOX

CHAPTER XVIII

I TALK WITH ALAN IN THE WOOD OF LETTERMORE

CHAPTER XIX

THE HOUSE OF FEAR

CHAPTER XX

THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE ROCKS

CHAPTER XXI

THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE HEUGH OF CORRYNAKIEGH

CHAPTER XXII

THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE MOOR

CHAPTER XXIII

CLUNY’S CAGE

CHAPTER XXIV

THE FLIGHT IN THE HEATHER: THE QUARREL

CHAPTER XXV

IN BALQUHIDDER

CHAPTER XXVI

END OF THE FLIGHT: WE PASS THE FORTH

CHAPTER XXVII

I COME TO MR. RANKEILLOR

CHAPTER XXVIII

I GO IN QUEST OF MY INHERITANCE

CHAPTER XXIX

I COME INTO MY KINGDOM

CHAPTER XXX

GOOD–BYE

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