A faithful account of the distresses and adventures of John Cockburn, mariner, and five other Englishmen : 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.
| Author/creator | Cockburn, John |
| Other author | Withington, Nicholas. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, MDCCXL. [1740] |
| Description | viii, 349, 3 unnumbered pages, plate : map ; 8⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| General note | 'The travels of Mr. Nicholas Whithington' has a separate titlepage, and is of the second edition. |
| General note | The pagination and register is continuous throughout. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from British Library. |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, T130244. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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