The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-16 00:00:00

ESCAPE OF FRENCH PRISONERS FROM

CATANNE.

The Now York askew meta= sis interesting
&writhe supplied by setae of the easeped primacy' et
Comma, wk. bays safely arrived la the United &sets situ
sadergolag assay perils sad bariatips it a very roessatie
sestaster.

--iiiiiti:oevea onside, polities! sad °thumbs, were
herded together on a little bland shoat a mile won, day
Galled the Devil's based, as si the group of the gaiety
Idea& lyisg oQ Fres& Guyana. They was fed as .aft
perk ..4 Wendt, onsesiosady varied by salt onsillelt and Olio
suit, sod slated every noratag by t►eir keeper, who same
hen a seighbouring bLar,d, L'lle Royale, when thus was
a detashawat of urea. -

An weep was twei eat owlet oat by alas IBM sat
✓aft nail with think hkthad immeatk a frames. After
saffertag great her sat brier tee of their number,
ow d the., • herfilier d Dos Phew" ma attempted to
sheet Leal Nageteek thet eseellei the Doti sittleeteate.
Aserhia mere was Oaftiog Neat a meath after with tere
Nam et wit*. esettelabr wea, sweseedei
eampirs lbe *gimes et the Tema sesames% while the
Isasseas area ea the other were retakes. Thew rhea
jahtad thsk eassraiss at Parasearlbe. Most of these who
ere here, we lass of some odeestlea. They have lidless
the 'snowier Getout, of dligf amps; News.
sad Cliabease funiehlag the esseviet el the Iser.l=l4.
Oran Dime, a meg sum NM the opeelessat It the
a victim of the soup rile% who ha spent these
years la Comae, that of the amend Neaps
Coat upsa the reek of Dive's bleat, sad left to die, far
tram marythiaa la the weal whisk is dear to a ma, we
domed new pelisses fee weepeortsieh were diSpelt of
eassatlea, es Albs trees ea the Mead had bees at dews
the yew hews le befit weeds he Meows at escape—
whieh dews hied. We had hue sae wawa left—that of
=raft. This agreed es ell west to work. lows
et feet c 4 ends wen made of bark, by the aid of
the wheel of a barrow. We deg out ea norms.
stump, wad with • Media est handsaw made staves of this
sad thalami* of wag alma. These were suds late barrels,
with 'Wilted& firs piano, sad a plait..' which we
trameftased late sa .dl.. Au old trash of • tree sad the
beam 1t... astaltablted house, served for the frame of
the refl, ant shirts, pantaleoas, sad blouses were sewed
towhee lee a son. Iverythlag was earefully hidden', 10 ea
an to mile the attention of the keeper, who MIN envy
morning. Whoa oar oars was lashed, we pat our rattail icUy
together, sad SON boards, partly ailed sad partly tied,
served as a door for It; a bulwark w also pat on to support
our oars ad keep the waves from sweepiag over as. The
raft was Leached, bunk, met set sails were put oil
beard. with bread sad water. At bat, sews of us rowed
out at t *Week la the evades, so as sot to be sera by the
troops, who are establithed at Ink No yak, sad di-
rected oar 001119111 toward Dudek Gana.. The Witt was
chow' sad at daybreak the Mirada were out of sight.
Daring the lest days we kept out of sight of Lad, the
sea was our octanes* by day, aid the is.. sad stars
at night. We :aft the island oa the 12th of August, ad
oa 16:11, at 4 p.m., we landed on Doak soil. TM nit
was repaired dark( the sight, sad at daylight we started
agile, hatpin in sloes to the lead. so as to go as shore Is
we of pursuit. Oa the Jonah day we leaded, the wind
being astray. We had three days' retie, on board; we
made to.. last five days. Os ta With, our brightest was
half ea oar aeons for each man, our sapper a sleek Grob.
Oar water gave oat that moraing. Oa the seventh day we
sit aabs, which made as very lb nty„ as they were lot
salted. Oa the eighth day, the wind Wog the same way,
it was decided that if it did aoi sleep the seat day, tee
of us should go by bad to work aid. This day
was terrible; we were nditeed to drink our wise
sad salt water, which still inereased our thirst. Rea
fell that sight, sad we streaked oar sal to catch
it; bat so little fell that the sail was only moistened.
We sacked It, sad It did as a gnat deal of good. Os
the ant day we started, lesvieg behind our sena
eirearedes (Piaaori, Quinn, Bahia Datheasey, and lio-
khaki), to whom we were to bring 'aid as soma as possible.
&ranted we walked for four day. sad • half through mad
sad ever troths of tress. We lam several small rivers,
and walked for a mile or two in the sea, wilt the water up
to our necks. To refresh ourselves we land ambits' ea
our route but a few pounds of hooey sad some very small
birds' eggs. We bad some fresh water mace. Vries sad
eat water were our oily drink, with this exception. Daring
this time we band no tray of mea. We saw nothieg but
stab', deer ad tiger tracks, sad monkeys romans about
us. Night sad day we IMO eaten up by mesquitoni,
gnats, ad horesillies. At last, cm the 28th, at aeon we
reached the Ant ablating, sad were well reserved! •
as week for ta aka is charge of tha Dateh post. He
spoke Freak very well, and as told him of tit peril
of our soared... We barged Ma to give them
speedy old, but Is van. We were told that
we should be taken to the Cookie of the district. Wan
we west to him we made the same request, but he kept as
all sight is his house, ad seat seed the sett day to the
Deveraor at Parana be. We meshed that place ea the
seersiag of the 19th, aid were takes to the Premium
Gears', who seat as to Maw, ad it was at nail tartan
boars afterwards that a poll.. agent WM seat for us =
marsh of iter oeserades. We started that night at 10
sad ea the 31st we (*sad three of ear In seearedes. They
had ametrated a small raft sad had eoesseasei their
jowney, bet they sees riposted la the sad lett
the raft to wade through Use shallows.
rasa& the Dash pest la the eight of the Mk(
ad Quieted dorms the day at Os nth—tares last fill
Crew eshaestios daring the day of the 27th,
was ia:a=
there where se shade, sad the sea
WS beg. Om Wes main am ea bad ow

buk sad west with as In search of the ether,
two. We nailed the plan that sante day from which we
were to start to dad then, bat we were obliged to wait for
AB ceder free the septets of the district, which did tot
nee Mil the neat day, the let of Poptenber. At last a
phninaa, the penile et the Man, the two rasa who waren
lithe es t• Bella—"-, w pine Mist and the three
aspen seereied the ease, ton they did not dad that ; it
was not natll seen creeks later that we learned from the
aadvai that they bad feud then is the nod, *sir eyes
eaten wt, sad leek heads deemed by the wan. These
violas are Peen& Pram, sad Bokeasky, • Pole. We
Teemed to Pesineellea were pet In prises &gala fora hide
ad duo seat to Demean.
" TIMM amps gale the Idea of • enarad. The atten-
tion of thenneransat of the Woods had, however, been
awakened, sad ovate badeentebed the island sad envied
away the dew nen tad materiels when the exiles still had,
for all arlarteling was our of MINN lanky ; we lacked
everything, het aesanity made as ininebriors. Twenty
homed ems party, sad soothes allether, to build two
rafts tympany feet is leagth, by eight la breadth. With a
few Me of weed picked op about the island, and four hems
lateaded fie the sills of a house, we made two frames, sad
on then we pissed faggots sad bundles of °ors stalks. Oa
the sides we bad bulwarks throe feet high ; a piece of Weed
la beat famed the bowsprit, and a large oar served se a
rudder. • rule fifties het nag did very well for • lust,
sad we made ear sail, like the *titer, of shire, tad our
nun&
Mew was wade of the bark of limn plants and
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" Oa the day of departure ws were owspeUed to pall a
house is Owes to gat vista:l4 for the &aria, of oar rafts,
sad we replsad the hoards with brash to demise the
watehfalaws of L'is Royal*, of whish this hoses was la
fall view. _

--"
0; the 13th of September, at foal p.m., all was rawly.
A stow sewed ap I. a staves bag holout two veeeth
at flasher fa a plebe inviable treat the other Wands,
aid we welted mull twilight should begia to shade the
lama.

;11t 71, pra., we set sail la spite of a high see, sad at
daybreak, ow the of the 14th, we passed the
Galt of fteleautri, at the Meanie of 'boat twelve
kagem Toward' tow *Week la the monism the two
rafts which hod kept etswpaay without accident ap-
proached seek ether More closely. Jut at that time,
the raft the fourteen met with a misfortune, hat not
being able to Five thee say aid, we exhorted thaw to
take eurege sad not be Militated. They then headed
for lead, sod seas disappeared bousth the horixos.
" We afterwards leaned that they were arrested by a
steamer seat la pencil of as, with soldiers and geadarase,
sad ordered to shoot an lasteatly if we refused to ear-
reader. We have this from the maim who navigated the
'toaster.

---Oa the leek after three days and sighte exposer* as •
►igh sea, inemiereed in the water to our weld+, and some-
times eovered by the wares whisk swept over our raft, we
landed oa the oast of Ideroni, • few mallet from an Indian
village. We seat two of oar number to the valage to have
• palaver with the a•ttese, bat they could not madantaad
sash other.

oatltCl7th we returned to oar raft, but the lodises bad
pillaged it of everything portable, se all hope of escape by
as wee eat WE We coos saw a ;wog. of 'adieu, armed
with gams, sakes, sad bows and snows. To gala their
goodwill, we gave lime • few piewe of lien irides we had
wmalalag. Two SWOON sow arrived. They spoke • little
Fffaith, and told as that there wee • Dateh colony Arnow or
18 miles eff. They Wooed the ladiaas to take as there to
their woe. This. we resolved moot generous hospitality.
We pawed the 18th sad the 19th at Samna, sad proctored a
rata manned by Taoism; to take is to Sulam, sad is
the 21et of September we arrived there' alines naked,
werwhelmed with fatigue, with ow lege aimed, and oar
hot badly sat.
OsAke 21st of October, also of as embarked on the
Items/ Parimaribe, alai& leaded as oa the 23rd at Deme-
rara. We applied to the English goveremest, and were well
received. Oar purges were paid by the governmeat to
Badmen; and ea the 30th of ()Weber we embarked as
the Amazes, whisk landed is as the 20th of November in
Baltimore. Oa the 24th we took the steamer Palmer for
Philadelphia. We same to New Took the sum day by the
emigreat Malta and is the 27th we were wry happy to
be able to shako the ludo of war brothers and Meala
New Task.