Narrative of a voyage to Senegal in 1816 undertaken by order of the French Government comprising an account of the shipwreck of the Medusa ... To which are subjoined observations respecting the agriculture of the Western coast of Africa / by J.B. Henry Savigny and Alexander Corréard. Illustrated with the notes of M. Bredif.
- Savigny, Jean Baptiste Henri, 1793-1843. Naufrage de la frigate la Méduse. English
- Date:
- 1818
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Narrative of a voyage to Senegal in 1816 undertaken by order of the French Government comprising an account of the shipwreck of the Medusa ... To which are subjoined observations respecting the agriculture of the Western coast of Africa / by J.B. Henry Savigny and Alexander Corréard. Illustrated with the notes of M. Bredif. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![At night the sky became cloudy, the winds came from the sea, and blew vio- lently. The sea ran high, and the frigate began to hee] with more and more violence, every moment we expected to see her bulge; consternation again spread, and we soon felt the cruel certainty that she was irrecoverably lost. She bulged in the middle of the night, the keel. broke in two, the helm was unship’d, and held to the stern only by the chains, which caused it to do dreadful damage; it pro- duced the effect of a strong horizontal ram, which violently impelled by the ship; the whole back part of the cap- tain’s cabin was beat in, the water entered in an alarming manner. About eleven o’clock there was a kind of mutiny, which was afterwards checked by the presence of the governor and the officers; it was excited by some soldiers, who persuaded their comrades that it was intended to abandon them on board the frigate, while the crew escaped in the boats; these alarms were excited by the imprudence](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33090701_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
