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Or, the Adventures of Capt. Cheap, the Hon. Mr. Byron, Lieut. Hamilton, Alexander Campbell, and Others, Late of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, Which Was Wreck'd on A Desolate Island in Lat. 47. S. Long. 81. 40. W. in the South-Seas, Anno 1741. Containing A Faithful Narrative of the Unparallel'd Sufferings of These Gentlemen, After Being Left on the Said Island by the Rest of the Officers and Crew, Who Went Off in the Long-Boat. Their Deplorable Condition, Desperate Enterprizes, and Prodigious Distresses, Till They Fell Into the Hands of the Indians, Who Carried Them Into New Spain, Where They Remained Prisoners of War, Till Sent Back to Europe, on the Terms of the Cartel, in 1746. The Whole Interspersed With Descriptions of the Countries in Which the Various Scenes of Their Adventures Lay; the Manners, &c of the American Indians and Spaniards, and Their Treatment of the Author and His Companions. By Alexander Campbell, Late Midshipman of the Wager
And to Many Other Parts of the World, Performed From September 1740, to June 1744, by Commodore Anson, In His Majesty's Ship the Centurion, Having Under His Command the Gloucester, Pearl, Severn, Wager, Trial, and Two Store Ships. To Which Is Added, An Appendix, 1. Containing A Summary Account of the Discovery of the East India, China, and the Principal Islands, by the Europeans: Of the Progress in Trade and Navigation in Those Parts: Their Respective Factories, Forts and Settlements. 2. The Particular Grants, Patents and Privileges Granted to the East India Company: The Methods Us'd by the Dutch to Supplant Us in Our Trade, and Their Massacring the English Factory at Amboyna. 3. A Description of the Present Trade of India and China in General; of the Diamond Mines of ... and Visiapour, &c. Illustrated With Several Copper Plates