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A Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Oswego, on the Coast of South Barbary, and of the Sufferings of the Master and the Crew While in Bondage Among the ... and Its Inhabitants and the Peculiar Perils o
Judah Paddock
Paperback. Forgotten Books 2015-09-27.
ISBN 9781331996347
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Excerpt from A Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Oswego, on the Coast of South Barbary, and of the Sufferings of the Master and the Crew While in Bondage Among the Arabs: Interspersed With Numerous Remarks Upon the Country and Its Inhabitants and the Peculiar Perils of That Coast
I Am so far from ever wishing to appear before the public as a writer, that I had all along resisted the importunity of a great many of my friends, who earnestly solicited me to write, and publish a narrative of the wreck of the ship Oswego, on the coast of Barbary, and of the sufferings of myself and crew among the Arabs. I have at last consented to do it, for two reasons; the one is, I am in hopes it may be of some benefit to sea-faring men exposed to the like calamity; and the other is, that I am desirous to oblige Captain Riley, who requested it of me as an appendix to his narrative, and to whom I have presented it, without any emolument from him or any other person. Having had only a common education, as respects learning, and being unaccustomed to composition, I could tell my story only in a plain way, without the embellishment of flowery language. Another disadvantage I am under, and a great one, is, that the most important notes, and all the letters on the occasion, are lost, so that from memory chiefly must this narrative appear.
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