A faithful account of the distresses and adventures of John Cockburn, mariner, and five other Englishmen
Subtitle: 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
Contributors: Withington, Nicholas
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2: Slave trade in the Atlantic world; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: Printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard
Published: 1740
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Description and travel
Notes: '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.