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The Pleasant and Surprising Adventures of Robert Drury; During His Fifteen Years' Captivity on the Island of Madagascar
The Pleasant and Surprising Adventures of Robert Drury During His Fifteen Years' Captivity on the Island of Madagascar Author:Robert Drury General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1826 Original Publisher: Hunt and Clarke Subjects: Madagascar Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / Africa / South / General Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Eur... more »opean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE ADVENTURES or ROBERT DRURY. As my design in the ensuing narrative, is to give a plain and honest account of matters of fact, I shall make use of no artful inventions, or borrowed phrases, to lengthen or embellish it; nor shall I introduce any other reflections, than what were the natural result of my many uncommon and surprising adventures. And, Here, I hope, it will be no ways improper to inform my readers, that I was not fourteen years of age when these heavy misfortunes first befell me; so that my youth, as well as want of knowledge in the Madagascar language, rendered me incapable of making such curious observations, as one of a riper age, better judgment, and freed from slavery, might have done to much greater advantage. For, I, Robert Drury, was horn on the 24th of July, in the year 1687, in Crutched-friars, London, where my father then lived; but soon after he removed to the Old Jury, near Cheapside, where he kept for several years afterwards that noted house, called the King's- head, or otherwise distinguished by the name of the Beef-steak-house ; and to which there was, all his time, a great resort of merchants, and other gentlemen of the best rank and character. Notwithstanding the education my father bestowed on me, I could not be prevailed on to think of any business but going to se...« less