Ernest Young

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CORSICA

CHAPTER I A PEEP AT THE ISLAND

CHAPTER II A PEEP AT CORSICAN HISTORY

CHAPTER III ALERIA AND THEODORE

CHAPTER IV BONIFACIO

CHAPTER V CALVI

CHAPTER VI BASTIA

CHAPTER VII AJACCIO AND NAPOLEON

CHAPTER VIII CORTE

CHAPTER IX PAOLI

CHAPTER X IN BUSH AND FOREST

CHAPTER XI THE VENDETTA

CHAPTER XII WHEN THE END COMES

CHAPTER XIII THE KING OF THE BANDITS

CHAPTER XIV BY THE ROAD-SIDE

CHAPTER XV ANIMALS

CHAPTER XVI CHARACTER

CHAPTER XVII SOME STORIES AND LEGENDS

Transcriber's Notes

LIST OF VOLUMES IN THE
PEEPS AT MANY LANDS
SERIES

EACH CONTAINING 12 FULL-PAGE
ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

BELGIUM
BURMA
CANADA
CHINA
CORSICA
EGYPT
ENGLAND
FRANCE
GERMANY
GREECE
HOLLAND
HOLY LAND
ICELAND
INDIA
IRELAND
ITALY
JAPAN
KOREA
MOROCCO
NEW ZEALAND
NORWAY
SCOTLAND
SIAM
SOUTH AFRICA
SOUTH SEAS
SWITZERLAND
TURKEY
WALES
WEST INDIES

A LARGER VOLUME IN THE SAME STYLE
THE WORLD
Containing 37 full-page illustrations in colour

PUBLISHED BY ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
SOHO SQUARE, LONDON, W.

AGENTS

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PEEPS AT MANY LANDS

CORSICA

BY
ERNEST YOUNG, B.Sc.

Head Master, Lower School of John Lyon, Harrow
Author of
“A Peep at Siam,” “The Kingdom of the Yellow
Robe,” etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY
E. A. NORBURY, R.C.A.

LONDON
ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK
1909

TO
MY FRIEND AND FELLOW TRAVELLER
A. E. DYSON