Voyage à Cayenne, dans les deux Amériques et chez les anthropophages (Vol. 2 de 2)

A firsthand travel narrative recounts the author's voyage from home to a South American penal colony, describing shipboard hardships, shipwreck, arrest, and successive transfers into inland deserts where deportees endure hunger, disease, and brutal burials. Alongside personal suffering it offers ethnographic observations of coastal and interior indigenous groups, people of African descent and Creole society, and missionary encounters, and discusses commerce, religion, and local customs. The account alternates vivid anecdote and moral reflection, includes portrayals of alleged cannibal practices, a catalogue of deportees and institutional critique, and supplements responding to contemporary critics and historical notes on remote islands and colonial officials.