The four years voyages of Capt. George Roberts
Subtitle: being a series of uncommon events, which befell him in a voyage to the islands of the Canaries, Cape de Verde, and Barbadoes, from whence he was bound to the coast of Guiney ...  Together with observations on the minerals, mineral waters, metals, and salts, and of the nitre with which some of these islands abound.
By: Written by himself ... Adorn'd with several copper plates.
Contributors: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731, supposed author.; Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: A. Bettesworth [etc.]
Published: 1726
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
Subjects: Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800; Islands of the Atlantic -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Ascribed also to Defoe.  According to the Dict. nat. biog. this ascription "seems unauthorized and unnecessary ... No reason can be alleged for doubting the existence of Roberts or the substantial truth of the narrative."  According to W.P. Trent (in Camb. hist. of Eng. lit. v. 9, p. 25) though it may be the record of a real seaman, it "bears almost certain traces of Defoe's hand."  cf. also Trent's Defoe, how to know him, p. 263.