Category: Historical Novels
ONE of the particular Advantages of the following Letters from Captain _Avery_, is, the Satisfaction they will give the Readers how much they have been impos'd upon in the former ridiculous and extravagant Accounts which have been put upon the World in what has been publish'd...
At length we spy'd three Ships coming right up to us with the Wind; we could easily see they were not _Europeans_ by their Sails, and began to prepare ourselves for a Prize, not...
3. Part 3I was willing enough to have gone thither, because of the Treasure I had left there under Ground; but still I concluded we were (as I have said) too rich to go on Shore any wher...
2. Part 2We were fully satisfy'd, as we said to one another, now, and concluded that we would stand away to the Windward, as well as we could, towards the Coast of _Africa_, that we migh...
6. Part 6When they saw this, one of them, who appear'd as their Leader, but was only the Purser's Clerk, ask'd, Who we were they must yield to? And if we were Christians? I told them, je...
4. Part 4It is enough to tell the Reader, that being put out to Sea, and being for Conveniency of Wind and Weather come to an Anchor on the Coast of _Spain_, my seven Companions having r...
1. Part 1ONE of the particular Advantages of the following Letters from Captain _Avery_, is, the Satisfaction they will give the Readers how much they have been impos'd upon in the forme...
7. Part 7However, we were glad we had any Place to run to for Harbour; so we put in under the Lee of a Point of Land that gave us Shelter from the Wind, and where we came to an Anchor, a...