The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 20Robert Louis Stevenson
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 20
- Listening time
- about 14 h 24 min
- Length
- 133,464 words
- Public domain
- the author died in 1894
- Edition
- Public-domain text, cleaned for narration
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- Language
- English
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It was in the month of May 1813 that I was so unlucky as to fall at last into the hands of the enemy. My knowledge of the English language had marked me out for a certain employment. Though I cannot conceive a soldier refusing to incur the risk, yet to be hanged for a spy is a disgusting business; and I was relieved to be held a prisoner of war. Into the Castle of Edinburgh, standing in the midst of that city on the summit of an extraordinary rock, I was cast with several hundred fellow-sufferers, all privates like myself, and the more part of them, by an accident, very ignorant, plain fellows.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 20 · Robert Louis Stevenson
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