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AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
A Collection
OF THE
MOST INSTRUCTIVE AND AMUSING
LIVES
EVER PUBLISHED,
WRITTEN BY THE PARTIES THEMSELVES.
WITH BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS, AND COMPENDIOUS SEQUELS CARRYING ON THE COURSE OF EVENTS TO THE DEATH OF EACH WRITER.
VOLUME V.—ROBERT DRURY.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR HUNT AND CLARKE,
TAVISTOCK-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN.
LONDON:
Printed by W. CLOWES,
Stamford-street.

THE
PLEASANT AND SURPRISING
ADVENTURES
OF
ROBERT DRURY,
DURING HIS
FIFTEEN YEARS’ CAPTIVITY
ON THE
ISLAND OF MADAGASCAR.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.
LONDON:—1826.
PRINTED FOR HUNT AND CLARKE,
TAVISTOCK-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN.
LONDON:
Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES,
Stamford-street.
v

EDITOR’S PREFACE

Among the various attractions of “Autobiography,”that of singular and extraordinary personal adventure,when faithfully related by the person to whom it hasoccurred, is by no means the least alluring. The shipwreckof Robert Drury, at the age of sixteen, in theDegrave East Indiaman, on the southern coast of theisland of Madagascar, in the year 1702, supplied aremarkable opportunity for one of those accurate delineationsof an isolated and barbarous people, whichare at once so amusing for their novelty, and instructivefor the additional lights which they throw upon theinnumerable varieties of human situation and character.The following volume affords a plain and unsophisticatedaccount of a fifteen years’ captivity or detentionof the author (the only one spared in consequence ofhis youth out of many murdered shipmates) in anisland, the interior of which, at that time, was littleknown; but which, happily, at present seems likely toenter slowly into the career of civilization. Obliged toconform to the usages of the natives, and rendered toall intents and purposes a member of their community,he necessarily became intimately acquainted with theirmanners, customs, and proceedings; which, togeth

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