...Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French Army was court martialed in 1894 on a trumped up charge of treason and condemned to life imprisonment on Devil’s island, a penal colony off French Guiana. His prison diary, published as Five Years of My Life in 1901 is...

...up with them. They ask’d me what I was; in Portuguese, and in Swam, and in French, but I understood none of them; but at last a ham and told him I was... ...he Part of America, which reaches from the Mouth of the River Oroonooko to Guiana, and onwards to St. Martha: He told me that up a great way beyond th... ...ral Towns on the Way, with an Account, that so much Snow was fallen on the French Side of the Mountains, that several Travellers were obliged to come ... ...ery little V oyage. But while we were considering this, there came in four French Gentlemen, who having been stopp’d on the French Side of the Passes,... ...Wolves, which we were told, we were in most Danger from, especially on the French Side of the Mountains. He satisfy’d us there was no Danger of that k... ... follow him, as did also twelve other Gentlemen, with their Servants, some French, some Spanish; who, as I said, had attempted to go, and were oblig’d...

...with them. They asked me what I was, in Portuguese, and in Spanish, and in French, but I understood none of them; but at last a Scotch sailor, who was... ...ce west from Cape St. Augustino; so that he found he was upon the coast of Guiana, or the north part of Brazil, beyond the river Amazon, toward that o... ...n the part of America which reaches from the mouth of the river Orinoco to Guiana, and onwards to St. 186 Robinson Crusoe Martha. He told me that up ... ...ral towns on the way, with an account that so much snow was falling on the French side of the mountains, that several travellers were obliged to come ... ... very little voyage. But, while I was considering this, there came in four French gentlemen, who, having been stopped on the French side of the passes... ... wolves, which we were told we were in most danger from, especially on the French side of the mountains. He satisfied us that there was no dan- ger of... ...o follow him, as did also twelve other gentlemen with their servants, some French, some Spanish, who, as I said, had attempted to go, and were obliged...