The Sufferings and Escape of Capt. Chas. H. Brown From an Awful Imprisonment by Chilian Convicts

CHAPTER III.

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My prison--My guards--An English hymn book--A fellow prisoner--Capture of the Eliza Cornish--Fears of the English mate--Death of Mr. Shaw--Of Captain Talbot and boy--Barbarity of their execution--The Chilian prisoners sympathize with us--Cambiaso’s bravado--Captain Avalos and others led out to view the dead bodies--Treacherous betrayal of Governor Gamero--Execution of the traitor--My walk 51