Excerpt from The Narrative of Robert Adams: An American Sailor Who Was Wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Year 1810; Was Detained Three Years in Slavery by the Arabs of the Great Desert, and Resided Several Months in the City of Tombuctoo The circumstance which produced this fortunate delay, was notice of the arrival in.en land of Mr. Dupuis, the British vice-consul at ogadore; to Whose interference Adams had ascribed his ransom; and to whom, consequently, the truth or falsehood of many ofhis statements must of necessity be known. No time was lost in obtaining an interview with this gentleman: and the satisfactory answers returned by him to the Editor's first inquiries, led to further trespasses on his kindness and his leisure; which ter minated in his consenting, at the earnest solicitation of the Editor, to undertake the perusal of the entire Narrative, and to communicate in writing whatever observations, whether confirmatory or otherwise, mi ht occur to him in the course of its examination. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.