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Rh him from France. Before he departed, they compelled him to swear that he would never reveal, either directly or indirectly, a tittle of what he might have learnt or suffered within the walls of his prison. Whether Linguet was justified in breaking this oath, on the ground of its being extorted from him by violence, is a question which he himself meets and decides in the affirmative. Six years after Linguet's release, the hated Bastille was captured by the infuriated populace, the wretched Delaunay, its governor, brutally murdered; and shortly afterwards, every vestige of the once famous prison was removed by order of the Evolutionary Government.

, who was commissioned by the British admiral, soon after the death of the Landers, to make a survey of some portions of the shores of Africa, as well as of Arabia and Madagascar, has given us in his narrative of travels a striking picture of encounters with wild animals on the African rivers, while exploring the river Temby. Captain Owen's lieutenant, named Vidal, had just commenced ascending this stream in his boat, when suddenly a violent shock was felt from underneath, and in another moment a monstrous hippopotamus reared itself up from the water, and in a most ferocious and menacing attitude rushed open-mouthed at the boat, and with one grasp of its tremendous jaws seized