Excerpt from Travels Through the South of France and in the Interior of the Provinces of Provence and Languedoc, in the Years 1807 and 1808: By a Route Never Before Performed, Being Along the Banks of the Loire, the Isere, and the Garonne, Through the Greater Part of Their Course Personal. Castigation. They take a blow with great sang froid. Whether from good-humour, or cowardice; whether that they thought they deserved it, or that they feared to resent it; the single arm of our Captain chastised a whole rabble of them; and they made a lane for as many of us as chose to land, accompanied by such porters as we had ourselves selected. Three or four of them, however, were still impor tuning us to permit them to show us to an inn; but as we had already made our se lection in this point likewise, our Captain returned them' no answer, but by a rough. 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.