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 InfoLondon : Printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, MDCCXL. [1740]
Descriptionviii, 349, 3 unnumbered pages, plate : map ; 8⁰.
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General note'The travels of Mr. Nicholas Whithington' has a separate titlepage, and is of the second edition.
General noteThe pagination and register is continuous throughout.
General noteReproduction of original from British Library.
References English Short Title Catalog, T130244.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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