A faithful account of the distresses and adventures of John Cockburn, mariner, and five other Englishmen [electronic resource] : Who were taken prisoners by a Spanish pyrate; treated in the most inhuman manner; set on shore, on an uninhabited island, naked and wounded, and obliged to travel over land from the Gulf of Honduras to the Great South-Sea, being 2400 miles. Containing many new and useful discoveries of the inland of those almost unknown parts of America; and an exact account of the manners, customs, and behaviour of the several Indians inhabiting so vast a tract of land. The second edition. To which is annexed, the travels of Mr. Nicholas Whithington, a factor in the East-Indies; containing his curious observations of the trade of those parts, their government and customs, and the barbarous usage he met with from the East-India Company, at his return home. Published from his original manuscript.
1740
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A faithful account of the distresses and adventures of John Cockburn, mariner, and five other Englishmen [electronic resource] : Who were taken prisoners by a Spanish pyrate; treated in the most inhuman manner; set on shore, on an uninhabited island, naked and wounded, and obliged to travel over land from the Gulf of Honduras to the Great South-Sea, being 2400 miles. Containing many new and useful discoveries of the inland of those almost unknown parts of America; and an exact account of the manners, customs, and behaviour of the several Indians inhabiting so vast a tract of land. The second edition. To which is annexed, the travels of Mr. Nicholas Whithington, a factor in the East-Indies; containing his curious observations of the trade of those parts, their government and customs, and the barbarous usage he met with from the East-India Company, at his return home. Published from his original manuscript.
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London : Printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, MDCCXL. [1740]
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English
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1 online resource (viii, 349, [3] p., plate)
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'The travels of Mr. Nicholas Whithington' has a separate titlepage, and is of the second edition.
The pagination and register is continuous throughout.
Reproduction of the original from the British Library.
The pagination and register is continuous throughout.
Reproduction of the original from the British Library.
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Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2: Slave trade in the Atlantic world.
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