Written by Chilian Convicts
The Sufferings and Escape of Capt. Chas. H. Brown From an Awful Imprisonment
by Chilian ConvictsThe preface to a book is very often nothing more than a respectable cloak, allowed by the conventionalities of literature, in which an author may wrap his excuses and apologies for troubling the public with his lucubrations. This dressing up of excuses in order to introduce them into notice under another name, is a thing so tempting to poor human n..