Note 311 — Chapter VIII · “DON JUAN”
Reading edition
In Canto II., the entire shipwreck episode is a symposium of accounts of other wrecks taken from Dalzell’s Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea (1812), Remarkable Shipwrecks (1813), Bligh’s A Narrative of the Mutiny of the Bounty (1790), and The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron (1768), the last named work being the story of the adventures of Byron’s grandfather. His account of the siege and capture of Ismail in Cantos VII. and VIII. is based, even, in minute details, on Decastelnau’s Essai sur l’histoire ancienne et moderne de la Nouvelle Russie.