en.' ."* The prisoners were then ele, to await their removal to the 66 SILVIO PELLICO. of a master which he wore, I determined to humble him, perceiving his inal Annoyed by his presence, and still more by the air cleaned out his rod servant, 'Give me some drink.' and said to him imperiously, as I would have done to a led to the condemn you must get quit of the habit of commanding.' "He looked at me as if to say, Arrogant man, here confesses he could said nothing, however, but bending his long back, he the same way bri took up the pitcher and gave it to me. observed he trembled; and attributing this to his age, He devoured it, he felt a feeling of compassion and respect mingled with and As I took it, I fering, from the fed kind-hearted jailer turning to some o in, it would, in all and suffering of the Pellico had more th ey received from the German st arrived from Vienna, the cone had had an interview with s majesty had graciously antheir imprisonment should be s instead of twenty-four-a g the simple fact, that their d be of only half the duration mastered my pride. s not officially announced to on was given publicly, there tleness. Seventy-four, signor; and many misfortunes his cell the sound of "How old are you?' said I, with a voice of more gent the promise had been made. of my own and other people have I seen.' This allusion rally soon suppresed Pellico's case it was violated. to his own misfortunes and those of others was accom-ever, when the sen the prisoners were received panied by a new fit of shaking as he replaced the pitcher; tinctly heard the so ad feared that this would and I could not help now attributing it not so much to -d the Alps; but it was not age as to the influence of a generous feeling of symin their native Italy, they pathy. This idea at once removed from my mind all ith the exclamation," Arme those hostile feelings with which I had at first regarded boar," I know you n His heart beat rapid ed through the wall ,"our carriages were forced and his look was no longer displeasing to ine; and not- jailers." It was Co him..... I looked at him more attentively than before, Come, let us to the I am Silvio Pellico age, before deciding where withstanding a certain air of rudeness in his language, of twenty, imprison there were in it traces of an amiable mind. The office Their conversation of the sentinels, w communication betw the people would gather sides expressions of comheart. The kindness of nore than even that of my ul I felt to all! how sweet creatures! how delightful d the arm of confidence a · It is the em each other comfort an ings and his oppresso rived lessons of resign religious feelings of hour twice a week, b The prisoners at S the tone in which the of head jailer,' said he,' has been conferred upon me as more pain than risking my life in battle.' I repented watching the mome place of repose, but God knows if it does not cost me having asked for drink with such haughtiness. My off in making their r dear Schiller,' said I, taking him by the hand, it is vain tone, they found the om this mitigated the ran- and since I have fallen into this misfortune, I thank ship sprang up bet for you to deny it; I know that you are a kind man; though without seein I had called my enemies. heaven that it has given me such a guardian.' He lis-other the events of t ould see them more nar-tened to my words, shook his head, then answered-rubme-if I could read in bing his forehead as if at the recollection of some unwho knows but I should no villany in them, and taken an oath which I cannot violate. I am obliged to little in me! who knows treat all the prisoners without regard to their condition, pleasant thought, I am a harsh man, signor. I have pelled mutually to pity, without indulgence, without allowing the least abuse, men hate, only because and particularly the prisoners of state. nd could they but ex-peror's concern and I must obey. You are an honest form of the castle, co lowance for me. man, and I shall respect what you think a conscientious Brunn and a large tra duty. Poor gentleman, have patience, and make al-path to it led along th but my heart-my heart-is filled with anguish at my I shall be inexorable in my duties; the unfortunate Maro inability to succour the unhappy. This is what I wished subterranean cell belo the Italian prisoners w treated me to be calm, and to give way to no violence, but he was not allowe to tell you.' pelled to treat me with rigour; then resuming his harsher at the castle, used to g as the prisoners too often did, that he might not be comlico as he passed," Bu he said, I must go.' He turned however, asked me tone, as if to conceal from me the depth of his sympathy, thinking that he did people from the town, how long I had been so miserably tormented with cough, and muttered a curse against the physician because he fever enough to kill a horse," he added: you will rewas not to come that evening to visit me. quire a mattress at all events, but we cannot give it to you till the physician comes to order it." You have n on the 10th of April. journey had exhausted racked with pain and upon his constitution. two separate cells n parting, impressed st implicit submission had taken possession pened, and the head this man, who bore folds itself with sinst delightful parts of ellico suffering from dhim rather rudely. vater to drink. bring the bread.' Food.' The worse pointing to one on are reasonable we The smith is pre. ..... Both of us were moved. He en Nothing could be conceived more miserable than the situation in which Pellico was now placed. Exhausted by you should be un-day of the physician arrived, which was not to be till the cough and fever, he had to wait till the usual visiting second day following. No change from the coarsest food no mattress could until then be allowed him. Covered with perspiration he in vain applied to be allowed the use of some of the sheets he had brought with him. It was contrary to the rules of the prison, which allowed only sheet per week. At last the physician arrived, who sanctioned the indulgence of the mattress, and directed, him to be removed from his subterranean cell to the floor above; and this, after a special application to judge by appear-ravia and Silesia, was with some difficulty effected. In a Count Mitrowsky, the governor of the provinces of Moy prepossessions. his keys joyfully day or two Pellico's prison dress arrived, consisting of haking a vile mass I watched his old, pite of some linca read in his counssion of the most feel his power a sort of harlequin suit of two colours, and a shirt as rough long course of as hair cloth, with chains for the feet. As the smith fasof compassion, tened them on, thinking that Pellico dia hide the fooli. Germe soon grow old; he has difficulty, in fact, that shake their heads and and his chain so far as there he used to throw Both were good natur there till the expiration Kral, a Bohemian, was guards stood or sat bes Of these he used to recit Wieland, Goethe, Schill and feeling, while Pellic the grass. A touching shall give in the author' ments of the superinten of courtesy and pity. and was declining slowl not describe with what infancy, than she who lives to have educated them with eighteen, who was Schiller's god-daug every care, and to see them taken from her!' “Two kind old women used to accompany the child. ren, one of them the mother, the other the aunt of the superintendent. They wished to know all my history, and I related it to them shortly. "How unfortunate we are,' they would say, 'that we can do nothing to assist you. But be assured we shall pray for you, and if your pardon some day arrive, it will be a day of joy for all the family.' hels were less attentive P One EVEN song sung in the cell adjoining pidly, he sprang from his paleta wall, "Who are you, unfortuna lico." "O Silvio" answered h ou not by sight, but I have loved ma the window, and talk in ges Count Antonio Oroboni, a pag isoned on a charge s on was soon interrupted who had positive orden between the prisoners: oments when the sentires eir rounds, and talking themselves able to seeing each other's fac between them. T of their lives-they t rt and hope. Oroboni sh s of Pellico; and even Pe -esignation and Christian d the youth of twenty spoke de ressors. P at Spielberg were allowed a wi - of these buildings, I used s he superintendent had long One day, smiling: 'Do you me resemblance to a pers e blushed, and replied, licity. Do not forget for my poor soul, and for ve behind me.' she could not leave her bed bo languished a few months before his death the good old man s was no longer able to speak distinct silver ring, the last of his possession and put it upon hers. Then he kiss tears over her. The girl sobbed, and her tears. He dried her eyes with then took her hands and placed then those eyes were closed forever!" While friend after friend had thus "The former of them, whom I was in the habit of him by death, one comfort was at 1 seeing most frequently, possessed a wonderful eloquence Pellico. Maroncelli was allowed to s in imparting consolation. I listened to her with filial new stimulus was given to both for gratitude, and treasured her words in my heart. "She told me things I knew already, which yet struck me as new ;-that misfortune does not degrade a man, unless he be a worthless one, but rather elevates him; that if we could understand God's counsels we should frequently sec cause to think the conqueror more to be pitied than the vanquished, the exulting than the affiicted, the rich than the destitute; that the special grace shown to the unfortunate by our Saviour should reconcile us to our situation, and that we ought to glory in the cross which was borne by him.. "But these two good old women, whose company gave me such consolation, were soon, for family reasons, obliged to leave Spielberg, and the children no longer came upon the platform. How deeply did these losses afflict me!" dulgence. The liberation also of two which took place about this time, (So one of whom had been condemned to other to twenty years' imprisonme hopes that at last the hour of deliveran even for them. The end of 1827 the be the term of their imprisonment; b and it came not. Then they thought of 1828 would be the time, at which and a half years of Pellico's imprison which, from the report of the emper the commissary, they had reason to t held equivalent to the fifteen, which fo amount of the sentence, But this too out a hint of deliverance. Meantime long subterranean confinement bega The health of Pellico, which had at first improved a selves in Maroncelli by a swelling of t little by the change of lodging, now began rapidly again first the pain was trifling, merely oblig to decline. Severe head-aches, with violent fever, and little as he walked, and indisposing hi dreadful spasms of the chest, tortured him day and usual exercise. But an unfortunate fa night. In their conversations he mentioned his situa- of the snow, which was already begin tion to Oroboni. He too, who had long been declining, ground, increased the pain so much, was one evening worse than usual. My friend," said days the physician recommended th he, "I perceive the day is not far off when one of us fetters from his legs. Notwithstandi two will no longer be able to come to the window. Every he grew daily worse: leeches, caust time we salute each other may be the last. Let us hold were tried in vain-they merely aggra ourselves prepared, therefore, the one to die, the other Maroncelli," says Pellico, "was to survive his friend." Poor Oroboni's presentiment more unfortunate than myself; but O was correct. Various discharges of blood from the suffer for him. The duty of attenda lungs, in rapid succession, and followed by dropsy, been delightful to me, bestowed as it showed that he was destined to precede his friend. He friend. But to see him wasting amids soon became aware of his situation, and often, looking, and cruel tortures, and not be able to towards the burying ground of the castle, of which his-to feel the presentiment that the kn window commanded a view, he would express to Pellico healed-to perceive that the patient the deep pain it gave him, notwithstanding all his efforts death more probable than recovery-a at resignation, to think that his remains were destined be obliged at every instant to admire to moulder beneath a German instead of an Italian serenity-Ah! the sight of this agon sky. After lingering till June, 1823, he expired, his expression! last words being, "I pardon from my heart all my ene"Even in this deplorable conditi mies." His patience had won the hearts of all his attendants. Kubitzky, the sentinel, who had attended the verses, he sang, he discoursed, he did bier to the grave, and who knew his wish, said to Pel-sufferings. He could now no longer ceive me into hope, to conceal from m lico, with a degree of delicate feeling which surprised he grew frightfully wasted; he often him, "I have marked his burial place exactly, that if the inoment he recovered his vital powe any of his friends should obtain permission to carry his endeavour to encourage me. bones to his own country, they may know where they lie." His death was followed by that of Antonio Villa, another of Pellico's companions in misfortune. Even poor Schiller, worn out with age and infirmities, was removed from the active duties of jailer, and could no longer by his kindness soften the rigour of imprison ment. "From the time he left us he was often unwell, and we enquired for him with the anxiety of children. When he got a little better, he used to come and walk under our windows; we hailed him, and he would look up with a melancholy smile, and say to the sentinel, in a voice that we could overhear, Da sind mein sohne,' (there are my sons!) "Poor old man, what grief it gave me to see him tottering feebly along, without being able to offer him the support of my arm! "His sufferings for nine months we At last a consultation on his case wa chief physician came, approved of all t ordered, and disappeared, without further opinion of his own. "A moment afterwards, however, t entered, and said to Maroncelli- Th did not like to explain himself in your apprehensive you might not have suffi mind to endure the announcement of cessity. I have assured him, however, want for courage.' ur is.' ་ an usual, then taking a "I exulted," says Pellico, " along with my companions ago?' I ought —“Gentlemen, I have the at the news, but still the thought occurred that some looked round,-1 acing to you that his ma- terrible disclosure for me might be at hand that my and thirty hands he kindness." Here he father, mother, or some one most dear to me, might be no noise at the time, hat the kindness was. more. My depression of spirits increased as we ap-me down. "it might be some dimi- proached Italy. The entrance to it on that side has few "He went on 1 freedom from labour, the charms for the eye; or rather, the traveller descends tor! But before diet. You do not under- from the beautiful mountains of Germany into the plains He could then n signor. Have the good- of Italy, by a long, sterile, and unlovely track, which nor even walk ab Liberty for both gives to foreigners but an unprepossessing idea of our prise. He kept you will soon embrace.' country. The dull aspect of the country contributed to exclaiming 'yes s nouncement would have render me more melancholy. To see once more our least what he was 7. Yet it was not so: our native sky, to meet with human faces whose features place at Novara. ur relations, of whom we bore not the aspect of the north, to hear on all sides our final permission a a period, and the doubt own idiom,-all these melted my heart, but with an liberated from al em again in this world so emotion more akin to sorrow than joy. How often in elapsed since I had to neutralise the joy which the carriage did I cover my face with my hands, pretend would, unaccompa by the announcement of to be asleep, and weep. Long years of burial had not in the afternoon. indeed extinguished all the energies of my mind, but lady, a merchant, director of police; I ex- alas! they were now so active for sorrow, so dull, so one of them deaf with joy.' I beg of you,' insensible to joy!...... Pordenone, Conegliano, Ospe- and I was gratifie mperor our gratitude; but, daletto, Vicenza, Verona, Mantua, reminded me of so with the family o te of our families, it is im- many things! A young man who had been my friend, Vercelli. The ha to the thought that some and had perished in the Russian campaign, had been a dawned. Our journ y be gone. It is this un-native of the first; Conegliano was the place where the ance seemed! It inds, even at the moment Venetian turnkeys told me poor Zanze (Angela) had "Who can attem thing but joy.' been conducted during her illness: in Ospedaletto an solation my heart aroncelli a letter from his angelic and unfortunate being had been married, now no braced father, mo ety. He told me, however, more, but whom I had loved and honoured once, whose Josephine was not of my family, and this in-memory I love and honour still. In all these places, in Chieri, but she has ccident had befallen them. short, recollections more or less dear crowded upon me, happy group. Res room, and in a short time in Mantua particularly. It appeared to me but yester-derest affection, I w dividual to whom the em- day since I had come thither with Ludovico in 1815, tals. Then, for all xtended.' We went and with Porro in 1820. The same streets, squares, palaces, piness, for all the go we thought, it is the poor-but how many social differences! How many of my for me, blessed be t of many; there was none, acquaintances carried off by death, how many in exile! and events, with or wishes. At last the door A generation of adults whom I had seen but in infancy! instruments for the ir companion was to be And to be still prevented from flying from house to cent ends!" Ve conversed till evening, house, to enquire after one, to impart consolation to So ends this pure s were to leave behind. At another! To complete my distress, Mantua was the leaving at its close eturned to rescue us from paint of separation between Maroncelli and myself. We produced by soft an arts groaned as we passed passed a melancholy night. I was agitated like a criminal willing to interrupt ds, at the thought that we on the evening before he receives his sentence of con-reflections of our ov ith us. Who knew how demnation. In the morning I washed my face carefully, so long, that we hav guish there!-how many and looked in the glass, to see whether it bore traces of they been called for. as of death! A soldier's weeping. I put on as far as possible a tranquil and make, in the justice each of us, and in our old smiling air: I repeated a short prayer to God, but in concur, that a book ed of our chains, we de- truth my thoughts wandered, and hearing Maroncelli a more acceptable ti re conducted through the already moving about on his crutches, and talking to the of religion, humanity It was a lovely moon- servant, I ran to embrace him. Both seemed to have which it breathes, a houses, the people whom collected their courage for the separation. We spoke tone in which these so delightful, so strange, with some emotion, but in a strong voice. The officer most favourably with vhich I had looked on no of the gendarmerie who was to conduct him to the those alternately volu our days the commissary frontiers of Romagna was come; he must depart imme-vice, those physical ice transferred us to him, diately-one embrace-another-he entered the carriage all generous sentime ne time the money we had he disappeared, and I remained as if annihilated. of pride, hatred, and t produced by the sale of "I returned to my room and prayed for the poor taminated our own lit vas delivered to us at the mutilated being, separated from his friend. I have that of France. Th journey was liberally de- known many excellent men, but none more affectionately may teach us, that it social than Maroncelli, none more alive to all the refine- impossible miseries, i ments of gentleness, none more inaccessible to attacks" on horrors' head h of bad humour, or more constantly mindful that virtue cite the dormant syn consists in a continual exercise and interchange of tole- the tale a ruffian, an ration, generosity, and good sense. O thou my com- to invest his characte panion through so many years of sorrow, may Heaven to hurry the reader t bless thee wherever thou mayst be destined to breathe, tling contrasts, in ord and grant thee friends who may equal thee in attach-They should teach us ment, and surpass me in worth! the gentler elements o alth when he set out from r him to remain for some medical attendance. His ly be imagined, was not ree days of Paris, which is a singular coincidence nch revolution broke out r had signed the warrant new not, however, what matters in France might peror, and began to fear gain be recoinmitted to ht be transported to some m their native country "We set out the same morning for Brescia, where our the overstrained, that other fellow captive took leave of me. Here he learned, repose; and that thou for the first time, that he had lost his mother, and the fleeting popularity to sight of his tears wrung my heart at parting. Grieved, fectation of indifferen however, as I was for so many causes, the following oc- the ties which bind currence almost extorted a smile from me. On the innmon those hotter fooli. that aco I had enjoyed the privilege of page veillance. How many ›mpanied by guards. I set out a oon. My travelling companies ant, an engraver, and two pag deaf and dumb. They ce atified to learn that they were ily of Maroncelli. We spend t e happy morning of the It journey preceeded: How s It was evening ere we reac attempt to describe the tra Heart received when I mother, and brothers reg s not there, for her dK e hastened as soon as Restored to these fi n, I was—I am-the mos or all these past sorrows 72 the good or ill which fate d be that Providence in ith or without their will, an ›r the promotion of its all-w and the dreadful scenes on the raft, have been recorded In despair at a separation which pla There is so much feeling and good sense, mixed with There is not, on the records of misery, an instance of more severe and protracted suffering, than is furnished by this shipwreck, and we trust there is not, nor ever will be, any where human nature was more fouily outraged and disgraced. There are, nevertheless, some pleasing traits of character in the story, which present a beautiful relief to the selfishness and brutality which so much abound in the dark picture, and are the green spots in the desert—the fountain and the fruit tree-as they were in truth, to the poor wretches they assisted with such genuine singleness of heart. pure strain of gentle and destin close an impression on the mis oft and melancholy music. We rrupt the course of the mars our own, and now we have we have left ourselves no room f ed for. One observation, howe ustice of which we think ever book like this could not have a able time than the present; the manity, resignation, and Chris hes, and the simple, subdued a these sentiments are embod ly with those hideous picture: ly voluptuous or loathsome ysical horrors, that affected con ntiments, that fierce and ric 1, and selfishness, which bare own literature, and still more e. These "Prison Thongs c hat it is not necessary to eries, in order to touch the ead horrors accumulate," is. mt sympathies; nor to mai n, an atheist, or a misante aracter with dignity and erg ader through a series of ra in order to stimulate the edges ach us that it is on the simp ments of feeling, not on the m d, that our sympathies must at though novelty may for i rity to compositions inculc ifference, selfishness, and car bind man to his Maker an er feelings are too deeply eng er eradicated, or even long ba e of this book, we are co na writer has the manliness belief, the depth and stab fellows, his confidence that is of deceit and suffering, " piness no dream,”—and is ing calculated to shake ngs, he will find "fit audie Signor Pellico may be ass d, and tranquil pictures of e for the instruction and cer e hollow glaring, and distered Lae alluded is des It was evidently nothing but the utter and thorough on board both the ship and the raft, which rendered the The translator informs us, "It may be satisfactory for AUTHOR'S PREFACE. Thus were we living when, in 1803 tured the colony of Senegal, and peru return to his family. But what a c with on his arrival at Paris! Wit friends, had all disappeared; and not two young daughters, who refused to for their father: so much were our y uated to see and love but one in the old man who had watched over our in Those who have read the account of the Shipwreck of the Medusa, by MM. Savigny and Corréard, are already acquainted with the Picard family. In 1810, our father thought fit to m their grandfather. Our tears were s but a great misfortune berell his child we were conducted home to her wh second mother. We would hardly Our sorrow was excessive, and the los irreparable. But they strove to co to obliterate the loss of our best frien playthings, amusements in abundanc perfect happiness we were living, whe allies entered Paris in 1814. France having had the good forty king, and with him the blessing of p was fitted out at Brest to go and re Senegal, which had been restored to instantly reinstated in his place of res went in the month of November to br As our family had become inore i second marriage of my father, he co him our stepmother and the younger e Caroline and myself were placed in a Paris, until the Minister of Marine the expedition to Senegal to be aban would grant us a passage; but the eve still in the harbour of Brest, and all the My father then returned to Paris, le stepmother, who was then in an unfi velling. In 1816, a new expedition was fitt was ordered to repair to Rochefort, w off. He took ineasures also for taki his wife, who had remained at Brest du days." The design of our accompan obliged him to address a new petition Marine, praying him to grant us all a obtained. One c Attracted to Senegal by a faint prospect of advantage, my father, head of that unfortunate family, could not, in spite of a good constitution and the strength of his spirits, The 23d of May was the day on resist that destiny, from the mortal influence of which quit the capital, our relations and frie none of us save three escaped out of a family of nine. On while, my sister and myself left t his death-bed, he expressed to me the desire that our mis- where we had been placed, and went t fortunes should not remain unknown. This then became all those who were dear to us. my duty, and a duty sacred to the public. I feel a plea-nost tenderly, could not hear of ou sure in fulfilling it, and consolation in the thought that parture without shedding tears; and a no feeling mind will read the story of our misfortunes without being affected ; and that those who persecuted us will at least experience some regret. The recital of the shipwreck of the Medusa was necessary, as much to explain the origin of our misfortunes, as the cause of the connection between that disastrous event, and the terrible journey in the Desert of Sahara, by which we at last reached Senegal. It will furnish me, also, with an opportunity of adverting to some errors in the work of Messrs. Savigny and Corréard. It only now remains for me to crave the indulgence of the reader for my style. I trust such will not be refused for her to change our destiny, she Immediately she appeared before the Baron Portal, struck with a friendsh encounter the dangers of so long a v request. At last, a beautiful morning anno flicting moment when we were to qu tilion, who was to convey us to Roc at the door of the house in which we to his carriage, which waited for us a Immediately an old hackney coach a stepped into it, and in an instant it w he instance of the amiable lady, the morning, however, the island of Rhé still appeared who flattered hi vay, and returned soon lost sight of the green fields of l'Aunis. At six in their absence, w most affable and generous manner. above the horizon. some pears, which were already gret, to salute for the last time our dear country. Now, At four in the we were served with an exquisite imagine the ship borne aloft, and surrounded by huge M. Richefort the We fixed our eyes upon it with re- Richefort a good which a child, beautiful as the mountains of water, which at one moment tossed it in as he said, save a basket filled with the fairest the air, and at another plunged it into the profound continued to gi We accepted the gift of Flora, abyss. The waves, raised by a stormy north-west breeze, Lachaumareys, -d for our generous landlady and came dashing in a horrible manner against the sides of ployed to explor raversing after that the park of our ship. I know not whether it was a presentiment of perfectly well ac rejoined the route to Rochefort. the misfortune which menaced us that had made me pass journals of the ate of remembrance to the offices the preceding night in the most cruel inquietude. In my markable. is so great assistance, I cannot agitation, I sprung upon deck, and contemplated with tioning her name. or officer of the general maga- winds pressed against the sails with great violence, sun at noon see She is the horror the frigate winging its way upon the waters. The felt, which told u The hot winds ships appeared in the horizon, hulk of wood seemed to split every time the surge broke seen. strained and whistled among the cordage; and the great our heads, a phen tance a hollow and confused upon its sides. On looking a little out to sea I perceived, multitude of people engaged at no great distance on our right, all the other ships of then saw the sho approaching nearer to Roche- the expedition, which quieted me much. Towards ten morning, they set ult we heard was caused by in the morning the wind changed; immediately an ap- the sailors have On the first of. yards and the galley-slaves, palling cry was heard, concerning which the passengers, something from ir fetters, attended to the va- as well as myself, were equally ignorant. The whole crossed the line. Having entered the town, the crew were in motion. Some climbed the rope ladders, doubled Cape Barb d itself to our eyes was that and seemed to perch on the extremities of the yards: tain Lachaumarey s, who, coupled two and two others mounted to the highest parts of the mast; these this species of bap rced to carry the heaviest bellowing and pulling certain cordages in cadence; those naded the forecastl ed, in passing, that the sight crying, swearing, whistling, and filling the air with bar-shore bristling with ung ladies who have never barous and unknown sounds. The officer on duty, in his passed on well; na e of all the repugnance we turn, roaring out these words, starboard! larboard! hoist! was well played off demned by the laws to live luff! tack! which the helmsman repeated in the same soon made us forge ver look with indifference tone. All this hubbub, however, produced its effect: the perienced. gs, degraded, by following yards were turned on their pivots, the sails set, the change which had with the beasts of burden. cordage tightened, and the unfortunate sea-boys having as we ran upon the with these painful reflec- received their lesson, descended to the deck. Every murmur rose amon the door of the carriage, thing remained tranquil, except that the waves still navy-they were f Every to an hotel in the street roared, and the masts continued their creaking. How-dence of the captain our stepmother and our ever the sails were swelled, the winds less violent, though zo had returned with her favourable, and the mariner, whilst he carolled his song, was persuaded that ous family were again said we had a noble voyage. , what saluting and emOn the 2d of July mparable to the pleasure passage. All the ships of the expedition still kept to-to the west, for abo During several days we did indeed enjoy a delightful After this pretended er a long absence. in the direction of icers who were to make they all disappeared. The Echo, however, still kept in over, they ought to gether; but at length the breeze became changeable, and room to double with h us. My step-mother sight, and persisted in accompanying us, as if to guide which the Minister and my sister Caroline, us on our route. sleep; for any farther we held due south, sailing at the rate of sixty-two leagues dition, from having fo fatigue we had already a day. The sea was so fine, and our journey so rapid, safety at their destina The wind becoming more favourable, which set out for Ser asily have sat till sup- that I began to think it nearly as agreeable to travel by the Echo, which had sea as by land; but my illusion was not of long duration. made several signals, covered the Peak of Teneriffe, towards the south, the sum- which threatened us w On the 28th of June, at six in the morning, we dis- abandoned us. mit of whose cone seemed lost among the clouds. were then distant about two leagues, which we made in Arguin Bank, to take less than a quarter of an hour. At ten o'clock we brought was again neglected, Towa as I have promised to before the town of St. Croix. Several officers got leave One of the officers of and he was strongly e truth, I will content to go on shore to procure refreshments. days I was tired of Whilst these gentlemen were away, a certain passen- My father, who had a ger, member of the self-instituted Philanthropic Society Senegal, and who with expose the intriguing of Cape Verd, suggested that it was very dangerous to they were going right remain where we were, adding that he was well acquainted servations to the unfor of June, we were on tudes. M. Le Roy Lachaumareys, Captain of the Medusa, Maudet, &c. with the country, and had navigated in all these lati- better received than th wey us on board the believing the pretended knowledge of the intriguing" My dear, we know ou off the island of Richeforte, gave him the command of the frigate. Various be quiet. I have already Rochefort. The officers of the navy represented to the captain how I have sailed upon the Richefor sown with corn. shameful it was to put such confidence in a stranger, and drowned." What reply -ance, to make my that they would never obey a man who had no character posterous speech? My r family went lei- as a commander. The captain despised these wise re-to get our route change were to embark, monstrances; and, using his authority, commanded the dence to free us from ws, and gathered pilots and all the crew to obey Richefort; saying he was our cabin, where he sou pon arrived at the king, since the orders of the king were that they should things we had had at of June, in running vo hours we had seen fine thing a maritime But as I have neither -ome of our fellow obey him. Immediately the ima sting a last look plavina 1. We |