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Here be it said that you have but three, eye-witness authorities worth mentioning touching the Enchanted Isles: Cowley, the Buccaneer ; Colnet the whaling-ground explorer ; Porter, the post captain . Other than these you have but barren, bootless allusions from some few passing voyagers or compilers.
They commentated M. Colnet, the old bookseller and publicist of the Quay Malaquais. Napoleon was to them thoroughly the Corsican Ogre. Later on the introduction into history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's armies, was a concession to the spirit of the age. These salons did not long preserve their purity.
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