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The unfortunate Englishmen : Or, A faithful narrative, of the distresses and adventures of John Cockburn, and five other English mariners; viz. Thomas Bounce, John Holland, Richard Banister, John Balman and Thomas Robinson. Who were taken by a Spanish Guarda Costa, in the John and Anne, Edwad Burt, master, and set on shore at a place call'd Porto Cavallo, naked and wounded. Containing a jouney over land from the gulph of Honduras to the Great South Sea, wherein is some new and very useful discoveries of the inland of those almost unknown parts of America. As also an account of the manners, customs, and behaviour of the several Indians inhabiting a tract of land of 2400 miles; particularly of their dispositions towards the Spaniards and English.

Author/creator Cockburn, John, mariner
Format Electronic and Book
EditionThe fourth edition.
Publication InfoLondon : Printed, and sold by all the booksellers, in town and country, 1779.
Description164 pages, plate ; 12⁰.
Supplemental Content Full text online
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General notePrice in square brackets: (Price 1s. 6d.)
General noteReproduction of original from National Library of Ireland.
References English Short Title Catalog, T208554.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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