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Transcribed from the First English Edition of 1708 and edited and
annotated. This volume covers the years 1689-1693. Continued in
First Series 83. The supplementary material includes the 1890
annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of
the volume first published in 1889.
Transcribed from the First English Edition of 1708 and edited and
annotated. This volume covers the years 1693-1698, following on
from First Series 82, with which the pagination is continuous. This
is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first
published in 1891.
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made
available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of
exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899,
consists of 100 books containing published or previously
unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir
Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and
Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Francois Leguat
(1637-1735) was a French Huguenot who became the leader of a group
of seven Huguenot refugees forced to colonise the island of
Rodriguez in 1693, after the French claimed their intended
destination, the Ile de Reunion. He remained on the island for two
years, before escaping via the neighbouring island of Mauritius.
Volume 2 describes his imprisonment on Mauritius and in Jakarta
before his return to Europe via the Cape of Good Hope in 1698.
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made
available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of
exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899,
consists of 100 books containing published or previously
unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir
Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and
Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Francois Leguat
(1637-1735) was a French Huguenot who became the leader of a group
of seven Huguenot refugees forced to colonise the island of
Rodriguez in 1693, after the French claimed their intended
destination, the Ile de Reunion. He remained on the island for two
years, before escaping via the neighbouring island of Mauritius;
after imprisonment in Jakarta, he returned to Europe in 1698.
Volume 1 describes his journey to Rodriguez and provides
descriptions of the island's now extinct flightless birds and giant
turtles.
Title: On and off Duty, being leaves from an officer's notebook.
... With illustrations, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical
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Oliver, Samuel Pasfield; 1881. viii. 386 p.; 4 . 10024.h.6.
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