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A Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Ship Oswego, on the Coast of South Barbary, and of the sufferings of the master and the crew while in bondage among the Arabs, etc

Judah Paddock · 1818 · Scanned text

109,692 words · about 7 h 41 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Licence: PDM · British Library Digitised Books dataset db14 (doi 10.21250/db14) marks the OCR texts CC Public Domain Mark 1.0 (c. 1510-c. 1900 publications); text+metadata JSONL release doi 10.23636/r7w6-zy15 is CC0 1.0. Public Domain Mark is a status label, not a new copyright licence. · Digitised by the British Library (with Microsoft). Text: British Library Digitised Books, CC Public Domain Mark 1.0.

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About this book

Author
Judah Paddock
Language
English
Published
1818
Length
109,692 words · about 7 h 41 min
Sections
3 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public Domain Mark 1.0

 

Contents (3)
  1. Front matter about 20 min
  2. Chapter I about 7 h 19 min
  3. Appendix about 2 min

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Front matter

A NARRATIVE OF THE SHIPWRECK OF THE SHIP OSWEOO. ON THE COAST OF SOUTH BARBARY, AND OP THE SUFFERINGS OF THE MASTER AND THE CREW WHILE IN BONDAGE AMONG THE ARABS; INTERSPERSED WITH Bumeroug ftemsrfcs* upon tfje Countrrj and its 33nfjabitant?% AND CONCERNING THE PECULIAR PERILS OF THAT COAST, BY JUDAH PADDOCK. HER LATE MASTER. KEW- YORK: PUBLISHED BY CAPTAIN JAMES R1LET. J. Seymour, printer- 1818. Southern District of New-York, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-fifth day of April, in the forty-second year of the Independence of the United States / -, of America, Judah Paddock, of the said District, hath deposited vL,sv in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as author and proprietor, in the words following, to wit : "A Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Ship 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 nwnerous remarks upon the country and ils inhabitants, and concerning the peculiar perils of that coast.

By Judak Paddock, her late Master.'1'' In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled " An Act for the encouragement ofLearaing, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during Ihe lime therein mentioned :" And also to an Act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act entitled an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books lo the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints " JAMES DILL, Clerk of Ihe Southern District of Neu>-Yorl;.

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