A History of the haunted caverns of Magdelama
Subtitle: an Indian queen of South America, with her likeness
By: Written by Dr. James Johnston
Publisher: printed for James Sharon
Published: 1821
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Fiction; Caves; Indian women
Notes: "During a captivity of three years, being taken up as a spy by the above queen, and near the expiration of his time, tried by their laws for attempting his escape, found guilty, and sentenced to death in their barbarous way, to be stuck full of light wood splinters, set on fire, and kept dying for several days.  With the author's trial, and last speech to the Indian kings and chiefs, together with his oration on the stage, at the king's request, in order to teach them the better to govern their country, and numerous subjects.  With the rise and progress of the Indian tribes, and that of the white inhabitants of South America."

"Published for the relief of the Author, who lost his all by that tremendous fire at Savannah, as before stated in the public papers."