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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    ia] : Writer of this Hiftory, by his long Abode in ihe _ Country for the Space of 23 Years, and by bis ouiward embracing of the Mahometan Faith, and becoming, asit were, one of the Natives, bod repeated Opportunities of knowing and notin ‘ every Thing worthy Obfervation, or which coul give him a thorough Knowledge of the Nature and Temper of the Inhabitants , and fiill the more fo, as he was fo-long employed in the Pa- Jace about the Emperor’s Perfon, and afterwards fo much concerned in all their bloody Wars. «There appears through the whole Hiftory, 4 certain Air of ‘Truth and Ingenuity, which eafily diftinguifbes it from Romance and Fiction ; and the Writer is careful to relate nothing but what he had a Perfonal Knowledge of. Upon the Whole, it is, in the Opiniou of thofe who bave perufed the Manufcript, the moft ex- traordinary and entertaining Hisrory that bas been publifbed for many Years, and, it’s thought, will afford as agreeable an Entertainment to the Publick in general, Ag THE