CHAPTER II.--SUPERSTITION

CHAPTER III.--DEVOTION

CHAPTER IV.--REVELATION

CHAPTER V.--AFFLICTION

CHAPTER VI.--CONSOLATION

CHAPTER VII.--ANNIHILATION




CHAPTER I.

TRADITION.

"What can he tell that treads thy shore?
No legend of thine olden time,
No theme on which the mind might soar
High as thine own in days of yore."

_The Giaour_.--BYRON


In the beginning of the eighth century Guernsey was a favoured spot.
Around, over the Continent and the British Isles, had swept successive