Author: Juan Van Halen

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780267947829

Excerpt from Memoirs of Don Juan Van Halen, Vol. 2 of 2: Comprising the Narrative of His Imprisonment in the Dungeons of the Inquisition at Madrid, and of His Escape, His Journey to Russia, His Campaign With the Army of the Caucasus, &C. &C These once concluded, I found myself master of a passport, ten letters of introduction, a purse with scarcely sixty pounds in it, and a port teau of clothes more fit for the drawing-room than for travelling. Such were the slender means with which I resolved to meet the rigour of a climate like that of Russia, and to undertake a journey by land, so long and painful, to seek my fortunes among a people of whose character I was totally ignorant, notwithstanding the various accounts I had read respecting them, and the information I was indebted for to the friend of the banker but to overbalance these inconveniences, I had good health, a better resolution, and the most sanguine hopes of success. 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.