Volume 181322

A general collection of voyages and travels, including the most interesting records of navigators and travellers, from the discovery of America by Columbus, in 1492, to the travels of Lord Valentia / [William Fordyce Mavor].

  • Mavor, William Fordyce, 1758-1837.
Date:
1813
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Credit: A general collection of voyages and travels, including the most interesting records of navigators and travellers, from the discovery of America by Columbus, in 1492, to the travels of Lord Valentia / [William Fordyce Mavor]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    along the finest road in France, to Montpelier. ‘This pleasant ramble, however, had taken un so much time, that it was requisite to revisit the coast of Pro- =) of a tartan, then in the port of Cette, and were wait- ing at ete ign for the hour of departure, when - were abruptly told that the commandant of the tow was hi ghly offended at their conduct, in presuming to leave the’ port without his consent; that he was particularly incensed against Sonnini, from whom, as an mais he expected “the ceremony of a pe ee and that he now requested them to rep: air to his house, oe their passage in the same tartan were already assem- bled. In. consequence a6 this curious message, OUr author and his companion waited uron M. Ouérelle, their arrival, informed our traveller that he was sould certainly have iavited him to partake of h briefly answered, that, as a stranger, a traveller, and plore forgiveness for his ignorance of the command- Evidently disconcerted at the corclusion of thi pointed answer, M. Ouérelle told him, he was at li- other travellers, he commanded them to go about author and his companions accordingly proceeded to the name of the commandant. On the 26th of April 1777 our author sailed from the road of Toulon in the Atalante frigate; but, the B Os