The history of the long captivity and adventures of Thomas Pellow, in South-Barbary. Giving an account of his being taken by two Sallee Rovers ... In which is introduced a particular account of the manners and customs of the Moors ... Together with a description of the cities, towns, and publick buildings in those kingdoms ... / Written by himself.

  • Pellow, Thomas, 1704-
Date:
[1740?]
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Credit: The history of the long captivity and adventures of Thomas Pellow, in South-Barbary. Giving an account of his being taken by two Sallee Rovers ... In which is introduced a particular account of the manners and customs of the Moors ... Together with a description of the cities, towns, and publick buildings in those kingdoms ... / Written by himself. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    { 38 J | Circumftances only excepted) in Number Three Hundred and one, releafing them from their long Servitude and Chains, and conduéting them to Te-. quan, where he found Shipping ready to tranfport them to their fo long defired Homes, there being then more than frx Years expired fince they were firft made-Prifoners, that is to fay, thofe taken with | oor unhappy me, who you may imagine could not. ‘be allowed to go with them, though I moft humbly ‘intreated it by all the Means I could devife, all my Solicitations being in vain, fo that I was obliged to ‘content myfeif, to effeét my Deliverance by private ~Efcape, when Opportunity offered 5 to which End the Ambaflador gave me very friendly Advice, toge- ether with many other Marks of his Favour, I might here fll up a great deal by Way of the 4everal Occurrences relating to the Ambaflador’s En- trance, Behaviour, Ufage, and Return to Yetuan, and, in fhort, many other Paflages of Moment, and which 1 very particularly remember ; but as [ am informed there 1s a Book of it already printed, I fhall not go about in anywife, to interfere with it, Com- anodore Stewart being a Gentleman of fo much good -Obfervance, that mine might only prove to be a Re- -cital of it, or at leaft a dull Tautology of the fame ‘Things ; though I cannot again help faying, and which, no Doubt, in that Report is omitted, that he in ‘every Point behaved in fo polite, moft Chrif- tian-like, and Majeftick a Manner, as not to dero- gate from, or lefien the Truft repofed in him by his _ Royal Mafter, whofe Perfon and Dignity he was | to reprefent ; and which | hearuly wifh had been fo ‘well performed by a certain Gentleman fent to Ave= quinez on the fame Errand about four Years before Ahim ; then had at in all Likelihood prevented many aking |