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Title: The world displayed : or, A curious collection of voyages and travels
Year: 1795 (1790s)
Authors: Smart, Christopher, 1722-1771 Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774 Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784 Harrison, William, ca. 1750-1803 Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner. BRL Boston Public Library (John Adams Library) BRL
Subjects: Voyages and travels Discoveries in geography Explorers Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia : Publish'd by Dobelbower, Key, and Simpson
Contributing Library: John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library
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kean offer of their friendfhip, and that the next daythey would furnifh his fhips with provifions;whereupon Mr. Drake returned their civility bygiving them fome linen cloth, fhoes, and a javelin ;upon which thofe on Ihore, on receiving their com-panions, freely releafed the hoftage. The next day a confiderable body of the nativesappeared near the fea fide : when it being imagin-ed that they came laden with provifions, the boatwas fent to receive them ; but one of the men,entertaining no diftruft, and haftily leaping out,as imagining himfelf among friends, was immedi-ately feized, and others of the natives quitting anambufcade, the failors who were going to attemptto refcue their companion, were glad to recovertheir boat, and put off with great precipitation.The admiral being extremely exafperated at thispiece of treachery, landed a body of men, andmarched a confiderable way into the country tono purpofe, for the Moors every where avoidedhim; he therefore returned to his fliip, and the
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Beaverj, biiifdtn^ tfi etr Htttts. ROUND THE WORLB. 325 pinnace being finifhed in four days^ they fet failfrom the coaft of Morocco on the joth of De-cember. The perfon who had been thus made prifonerwas named John Fry. He was carried up into thecountry, and examined with refpe6l to his nation^and the deftination of the fleet, and having de-clared that they were Englifh (hips bound to theStreights under the command of admiral Drake ;who to conceal his real defign, had artfully caufedthis report to be fpread, he was fent back withailurances of friendfhip, and fome prefents for theadmiral; but he being gone before Frys return,he was afterwards fent back to England in a mer-chant lliip. On the 17th of January, the admiral arrivedat Cape Blanco, where he found a fhip at anchor,with only two men left to guard her. Of thisfhip he made a prize, and ordering her to be takeninto the harbour, ftaid there four days, both tolay in a ftock of frefh provilions, of which he foundgreat plenty, and to

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