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SOUTH AMERICA.
1. Front gate. 2. House in which Cambiaso and Garcia lived.
3. Rooms where Mr. Shaw and myself were first confined.
4. The room I was afterwards removed to.
5. Where Mr. Dunn, Capt. Avalos, and others were confined.
6. Where my crew were confined. 7. Gallows.
8. Tree where the woman and others were shot.
9. The platform. 10. Flag-staff. 11. Guns.
12. Officers’ house. 13. Cook and bake houses.
14. Gate to the yard where the cattle were kept.
15. Trees where Mr. Shaw, Capt. Talbot, and the passenger were shot.
16. Where they were burnt, with the governor.
17. Where the vessels’ papers were burnt.
18 to 44. Houses or huts for the soldiers and prisoners.
45. Calaboose. 46 to 49. Store houses.
50. Gate. 51. Sometimes used for calaboose.
52. Dog house.
THE
SUFFERINGS
AND ESCAPE
OF
CAPT. CHAS. H. BROWN
FROM
An Awful Imprisonment
BY
CHILIAN CONVICTS.
BOSTON:
HIGGINS AND BRADLEY,
20 Washington Street.
1855.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854,
BY CHAS. H. BROWN,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.
GEO. C. RAND, PRINTER, CORNHILL, BOSTON.
PREFACE.
The preface to a book is very often nothingmore than a respectable cloak, allowed by theconventionalities of literature, in which an authormay wrap his excuses and apologies for troublingthe public with his lucubrations. This dressingup of excuses in order to introduce them intonotice under another name, is a thing so temptingto poor human nature, such a pleasant little offeringto self esteem and vanity, that it would bevery hard if authors were to be debarred froma luxury in which all their fellow mortals indulge.Yet, if it be true that a good wine needs nobush, it is equally true that a good book needsno excuse; and in this age of ready writers, itis very certain that no excuse or apology canjustify the publishing a bad one. To apologisefor poor or careless writing, because there hasnot been time or opportunity to make it better,pr