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: MDCCXLV. [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.
Thomas PellowDate: [1752?]- 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- E-books
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Journal of His Majesty's ship Litchfield , Captain Matthew Barton. Containing a particular account of every material occurrence which happen'd from their sailing from the 11th of November, 1758, ... against the island of ... wreck'd on the coast of Barbary. Also, the hardships they underwent ... slavery, in Morocco, ... To which is added, a description of Morocco and the Emperor's palace and gardens with the customs and manners of the natives.
Sutherland, James, Lieutenant.Date: [1760?]