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Raft of the Medusa
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[E]very moment an officer who was in the governor's boat cried out aloud, "Shall I let go?" Mr Clanet opposed it, answering with firmness, "No, no!" Some persons joined him, but could obtain nothing, the towrope was let go . . . a cry of "we forsake them" was heard. . . . 1(p30-31)
ThÉodore GÉricault (1791-1824) read the tragic tale Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816, an account of the extraordinary suffering experienced by J. B. Henry Savigny and Alexandre Corréard and other shipwrecked survivors after abandonment on a raft following the shipwreck of the frigate Medusa. He met with the authors in November 1817 to discuss their ordeal.2 Corréard's and Savigny's account drew universal outrage. Only 15 of 150 of those abandoned on the raft had survived 13 days on the open sea off the coast of Africa until their rescue by the crew of the brig Argus; 5 . . . [Full Text of this Article]
James C. Harris, MD
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