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A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings; With Biographical Sketches and Anectoes

A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings; With Biographical Sketches and Anectoes

Kay, John

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ISBN10: 1235715264
ISBN13: 9781235715266
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.25 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842. Excerpt: ... The singular incidents detailed in these Travels--the habits of life there described, so totally unlike any thing previously known in Europe--and the styl- of romantic adventure which characterised the work--led many persons to distrust its authenticity, and even to doubt whether its author ever had been in Abyssinia at all. Those doubts found their way into the critical journals of the day, but the proud spirit of Bruce disdained to make any reply. To his daughter alone he opened his heart on this vexatious subject; and to her he often said, The world is strangely mistaken in my character, by supposing that I would condescend to write a romance for its amusement. I shall not live to witness it; but you probably will see the truth of all I have written completely and decisively confirmed. So it has happened. Recent travellers have established the authenticity of Bruce beyond cavil or dispute Dr Clark, in particular, states, in the sixth volume of his Travels, that he and some other men of science, when at Cairo, examined an ancient Abyssinian priest--who perfectly recollected Bruce at the court of Gondar--on various disputed passages of the work, which were confirmed even in the most minute particular; and he concludes this curious investigation by observing, that he scarcely believes any other book of travels could have stood such a test. Sir David Baud, while commanding the Britisli troops embarked on the Red Sea, publicly declared that the safety of the army was mainly owing to the accuracy of Mr Braced chart of that sea, which some of the critics of the day ventured to insinuate he had never visited. On this subject Bruce is strikingly corroborated by that well-known traveller, Lieutenant Burnes. In a letter written from the Red Sea, so latel...

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