A faithful account of the distresses and adventures of John Cockburn, mariner, and five other Englishmen [electronic resource] : Who were taken prisoners by a Spanish pyrate; treated in the most inhuman manner; set on shore, on an uninhabited island, naked and wounded, and obliged to travel over land from the Gulf of Honduras to the Great South-Sea, being 2400 miles. Containing many new and useful discoveries of the inland of those almost unknown parts of America; and an exact account of the manners, customs, and behaviour of the several Indians inhabiting so vast a tract of land. The second edition. To which is annexed, the travels of Mr. Nicholas Whithington, a factor in the East-Indies; containing his curious observations of the trade of those parts, their government and customs, and the barbarous usage he met with from the East-India Company, at his return home. Published from his original manuscript.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cockburn, John, Mariner.

Contributor:

Withington, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Central America--Description and travel.

Central America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii,349,[3]p.,plate ) map ;

Other Title:

Faithful account of the distresses and adventures of John Cockburn, mariner, and five other Englishmen

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard, MDCCXL. [1740]

Notes:

'The travels of Mr. Nicholas Whithington' has a separate titlepage, and is of the second edition.

The pagination and register is continuous throughout.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T130244.

OCLC:

508884860