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We , meantime , when our services could be of no further avail , found ourselves , being in an enemy 's country , marched off as prisoners ; but I am bound to say that we were treated with the greatest kindness by the French . The spot where the wreck occurred was , we found , the Bay of Audierne , and the town near it that of Plouzenec . Here we met part of the officers and crew of the British thirty-six-gun frigate , _ Amazon _ , which had been wrecked with us . Her whole ship 's company -LRB- six men only excepted , who had stolen the cutter and were drowned -RRB- had , by means of rafts , landed in safety by nine a.m. of the morning the frigate went on shore . This might have been partly owing to the position of the ship , but more particularly to the admirable discipline maintained on board . We rejoiced to find that the other frigate , which was the _ Indefatigable _ , of forty-four guns , Captain Sir Edward Pellew , had escaped the danger which threatened her . Fenwick and I were sighing over the prospect of our expected captivity , and the destruction of all our hopes of promotion , when the captain of the French ship , who had been among the last to leave the wreck , sent for us , and , complimenting us on our behaviour , assured us that as we had been fellow-sufferers with him and his people , we and our men might rely on being liberated without delay .