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A journal of the shipwreck and sufferings of Daniel Foss : a native of St. Mary's, Georgia, who was the only person saved from on board the brig Negociator, of Alexandria, which foundered in the Pacific Ocean on the 26th Nov. 1811, and who lived five years on a small barren island, during which time he subsisted on seals and never saw the face of any human creature.
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 37630. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Foss, Daniel.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 37630.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foss, Daniel--Fiction.
- Foss, Daniel.
- Shipwrecks--Pacific Ocean--Fiction.
- Shipwrecks.
- Castaways--Pacific Ocean--Fiction.
- Castaways.
- Pacific Ocean.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 24 pages
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Printed for Thomas Hazard, [1816?]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- "The public may rely on the truth of the proceeding narrative of the shipwreck and sufferings of D. Foss, who is now living with his relatives in St. Mary's, Georgia, and has deposited in the Charleston Museum the oar, which he so highly prized, and on which he kept a reckoning of the number of days he passed on the dreary island."
- Includes (p. 23-24) a poem: To brother sailors.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 37630).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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