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, and carry'd a slave to Mequinez, at eleven years of age: his various adventures in that country for the space of twenty-three years: escape, and return home. In which is introduced, a particular account of the manners and customs of the Moors; the astonishing tyranny and cruelty of their Emperors, and a relation of all those great revolutions and bloody wars which happen'd in the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco, between the years 1720 and 1736. Together with a description of the cities, towns, and publick buildings in those kingdoms; miseries of the Christian slaves; and many other curious particulars. Written by himself.
- Pellow, Thomas, 1704-
- Date:
- [1751]
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Publication/Creation
[Sherborne?] : Printed for R. Goadby, and sold by W. Owen, Bookseller, at Temple-Bar, London, [1751]
Physical description
[4], 388 p. ; 80.
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Edition
The second edition.
References note
ESTC T107407
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.