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Title: Perils and Captivity
Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the
shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of
the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage
of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the
year 1770.

Author: Charlotte-Adelaide [nee Picard] Dard
Pierre Raymond de Brisson
Jean Godin

Translator: Patrick Maxwell

Release Date: September 28, 2007 [EBook #22792]

Language: English

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PERILS AND CAPTIVITY;

COMPRISING

THE SUFFERINGS OF THE PICARD FAMILY
AFTER THE SHIPWRECK OF THE MEDUSA,
IN THE YEAR 1816.

NARRATIVE OF THE CAPTIVITY OF M. DE BRISSON,
IN THE YEAR 1785.

VOYAGE OF MADAME GODIN
ALONG THE RIVER OF THE AMAZONS,
IN THE YEAR 1770.

EDINBURGH:
PRINTED FOR CONSTABLE AND CO.
AND
THOMAS HURST AND CO. LONDON.

1827.

PREFACE.

The expeditions in which it is attempted to explore unknown and distant
oceans, are usually those which are most pregnant with adventure and
disaster. But land has its perils as well as sea; and the wanderer,
thrown into the unknown interior of the Continents of Africa and
America, through regions of burning sand and trackless forest, occupied
only by rude and merciless barbarians, encounters no less dreadful forms
of danger and suffering. Several such examples are presented in the
present volume, which exhibit peril, captivity, and 'hair-breadth
escape,' in some of their striking and tragical results.

The catastrophe of the Medusa is already known to the public, as one of
the most awful and appalling that ever befel any class of human beings.
The Shipwreck, and the dreadful scenes on the Raft, have been recorded
in the Narrative of Messrs Savigny and Correard. But the adventures of
the party who were cast ashore, and forced to find their way through the
African Desert, co