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* Contents derived from the Brisbane,Queensland,:Edith Mary England,1945 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A captured Greek girl on a Turkish galley steals the keys of the rowers' chains during a fight and an English slave leads their battle for freedom, assisted by English ships that arrive in the nick of time.
Spanish Conquistadors besieging an Indian stronghold are offered a three-day truce and given the chief's son as pledge. The Indians escape down a secret tunnel and the hostage evades torture to follow safely, since a young Englishman among the Conquistadors suggests he is actually a girl, and not worth pursuit.
Young English Crusader at Joppa masquerades as Richard the Lion Heart during an attack, is captured, but escapes Saladin's camp thanks to the tricks he has taught his horse.
Idealised depiction of 'Eadgyth' - Edith of Wessex, daughter of Earl Godwin, sister of Harold, wife of Edward the Confessor, who while immured in a convent inspires the gardener's boy to a Platonic love in which he dies defending Harold at Hastings.
One of Drake's seamen returns to his village to find a pledged sweetheart, but on finding she has married elsewhere discovers his true love is seafaring.
Roman boy who attempts to have Christ fix his toy galley and is foiled by a disciple sees Christ on the way to Calvary. Christ remembers, the toy is mended and the boy experiences a conversion.
On the day of his execution Sir Walter Raleigh is shown proof by an English boy he left as hostage on the Orinoco that his 'El Nuevo Eldorado', the city of Manoa, actually exists, and dies happy.
English sea captain ship-wrecked by a 'tornado' on a pirate's headquarters island in the Spanish Main agrees to impersonate the dead chief pirate to help a French girl seize a pirate ship and escape.
Sweetheart of a young Mayan chief being tortured to reveal treasure prays to an 'evil' pre-Mayan god, who produces an earthquake that kills the Spaniards, including a Christian priest, and frees the chief, but destroys the old god's idol as well.
