22 MEMOIR OF LE VAILLANT. 



way for his liberation. To the downfal of that 

 sanguinary tyrant he owed the preservation of his 

 life. 



Quitting these wretched scenes of turbulence and 

 assassination, he retired to a small property which 

 he possessed at La None, near Sezanne, and which 

 became his favourite residence during the remainder 

 of his life. In this agreeable retirement, his time 

 was divided between the composition of his works 

 and the gratification of his inextinguishable passion 

 for bird- shooting, which led him to make frequent 

 excursions into the fields and woods in his vicinity. 

 Here he spent the last thirty years of his life, 

 seldom leaving his retreat unless when occasionally 

 obliged to visit Paris for the purpose of superintend- 

 ing the printing of his works. He died on the 22d 

 of November 1824, at the age of seventy-one. 



M. Le Yaillant wrote a considerable number of 

 volumes, the greater part of which were devoted to 

 the illustration of his favourite department of Natu- 

 ral History. The first work which he published 

 was entitled " Travels in the Interior of Africa, 

 from the Cape of Good Hope." It appeared in 

 1790 at Paris, in 1 vol. 4to., or 2 vols. 8vo., with 

 engravings. His next publication was " A Second 

 Journey into the Interior of Africa, by the Cape of 

 Good Hope, in 1 783-84-85," which also appeared 

 at Paris in 1796, in 2 vols. 4to., embellished with 

 maps and figures. 



As has often happened with travellers and navi- 

 gators, who are generally better qualified to mcJce 



