Morocco - Description and travel - Early works to 1800
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A second journal of John Russel, Esq; Consul-General in Barbary . Commissioned to treat with the Emperor of Morocco, for the redemption of such captives as were subjects of his Britannick majesty. Publish'd at the Request of Friends.
Russel, John Consul-General in Barbary.Date: 1745- E-books
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The history of the long captivity and adventures of Thomas Pellow, in South-Barbary . Giving an account of his being taken by two sallie rovers, and carry'd a slave to Mequinee, at eleven years of age: his various adventures in that country for the space of twenty-three years: escape, and return home. In which is introduced, a particular account of the manners and customs of the Moors; the astonishing tyranny and cruelty of their emperors, and a relation of all those great revolutions and bloody wars which happen'd in the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco, between the years 1720 and 1736. Together with a description of the cities, towns, and publick buildings in those kingdoms; miseries of the christian slaves; and many other curious particulars. Written by himself.
Pellow, Thomas b. 1704.Date: 1752- E-books
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The history of the long captivity and adventures of Thomas Pellow, in South-Barbary . Giving an account of his being taken by two sallie rovers, and carry'd a slave to Mequinee, at eleven years of age: his various adventures in that country for the space of twenty-three years: escape, and return home. In which is introduced, a particular account of the manners and customs of the Moors; the astonishing tyranny and cruelty of their emperors, and a relation of all those great revolutions and bloody wars which happen'd in the kingdoms of Fez and Morocco, between the years 1720 and 1736. Together with a description of the cities, towns, and publick buildings in those kingdoms; miseries of the christian slaves; and many other curious particulars. Written by himself.
Pellow, Thomas b. 1704Date: 1751- E-books
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A corrective suplement to Wm. Lempriere's Tour from Gibraltar to Tangier , Sallee, Mogador &c. &c. and thence to Morocco. By Franco. Sanchez, Spanisch Gardner in Morocco, and a friend to William Lampriere, Surgeon.
Sanchez, Franco (Francisco), Spanisch gardner.Date: 1794- E-books
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An account of South-West Barbary Containing what is most remarkable in the territories of the king of Fez and Morocco. Written by a person who had been a slave there a considerable time; and published from his authentick manuscript. To which are added, two letters: one from the present king of Morocco to colonel kirk; the other to sir clodesly shovell: With sir Cloudesly's answer, &c. By Simon Ockley, B.D. prosessor of arabick, in the university of cambridge; and chaplain to the Most Honourable Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, lord high-treasurer of Great Britain.
Person Who Had Been a Slave There.Date: 1713