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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: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / Africa / South / General Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / European / Englis... more »h, 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: PREFACE The Edition of Seventeen Hundred and Forty-three. As nothing is of a more amiable nature, so nothing makes a stronger and more lasting impression on the mind, than truth; and whatever regard some may pay to a wittily-contrived and ingenious tale, the best that can be said of it is, that it is a gay delusion, and an idle amusement exposed to view in the fairest and most advantageous light. The following historical narrative needs no such disguise or ornament to recommend it; for captain W. Macket, (who, by his certificate, has assured the public that he believed the account our author has given of his surprising adventures to be just and true,) was not only a gentleman of an unblemished character in regard to his honour and veracity, but well known to be a man of too great a fortune and good sense to countenance and give a public sanction to a trivial fable, or imposition. Without doubt this gentleman, as well as the captains of other ships, informed himself of a case so singular and surprising, for at Yong-old, where he took the author on board, William Purser, a native of Feraingher, was their linguist for some months; he spoke English well, and knew Mr Drury there, and was an eye-witness to many of the most doubtful adventures here related for several years together. The captain after this went to Munnong...« less