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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    ’ ; feo 4h a a a ne As Mr. Pertow fpeaks fo much in Praife.of Come , amodore Stewart’s Embaffy, and as the Boook he mentions is now out of Print, and very fcarce, we have with great Difficulty procured one of them, ta give our Readers the Pleafure of having Extraéis of ibe moft entertaining and curious Particulars out of it 3 3 and we have the more readily dene it, as the Book ts dt may likewife fer ve for a Lonfirmation of Mr. Per= LOW’S Hiftor, Yo IS Majefty having been pleafed to appoint the Honourable Charles Stewart, E{g,; Comman- der in-Chief ofa pnmes igh of Ships, to.cruize againft the Sallee Rovers, and alfo Plenipotentiary to treat of Peace with the Emperor of A~oreces, he failed from England the 24th of September, 1720, and arrived at Gibraltar the 20th of Odader follow- ing, At which Time the Spaniards having form’d an Expedition againft the Adoors, had already made confiderable Embarkations to Ceuta, from their Camp near the Bay of Gibraltar, The Ambafla- dor thinking this a proper Jun@ture to begin his Negotiation, on the 28th of Od?ober wrote the fol- lowing. Letter to the Bafhaw of Zetuan. Vo er ney aS ee ee eT oes