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Madagascar [electronic resource] : or, Robert Drury's journal, during fifteen years captivity on that island ... The whole is a faithful narrative of matters of fact, interspers'd with variety of surprising incidents, and illustrated with a sheet map of Madagascar, and cuts. / / Written by himself, digested into order, and now publish'd at the request of his friends

Author: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Published: London : printed, and sold by W. Meadows, at the Angel in Cornhill; J. Marshall, at the Bible in Newgate-Street; T. Worrall, at the Judge's Head in Fleet Street; and by the author, at Old Tom's Coffee-House in Birchin Lane, 1729.
Physical Description: xvi, 464 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, folded map ; 20 cm (8vo)
Additional Creators: Drury, Robert, 1687-1734?

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(from t.p.) I. His voyage to the East Indies ... -- II. An account of the shipwreck of the Degrave on the island of Madagascar; the murder of Captain Younge ... -- III. His being taken into captivity, hard usage, marriage, and variety of fortune. -- IV. His travels through the island, and description of it ... -- V. The nature of the people, their customs, wars, religion, and policy ... -- VI. His redemption from thence by Capt. Mackett ... his arrival to England, and second voyage thither. -- VII. A vocabulary of the Madagascar language.

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Captivity narratives

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Signatures: A-2G€ (Y3 missigned X3)
Attributed to Defoe by CBEL, Moore, Dict. nat. biog., and ESTC; however, some confusion exists as to whether Drury is fictitious or not--the consensus being that Defoe embellished the real Drury's story.
Page vii misnumbered vi.

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Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa.: NewsBank, inc., 2014. Available via the World Wide Web. Access restricted to Readex Afro-Americana Imprints, 1535-1922: From the Library Company of Philadelphia subscribers.

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ESTC T070323
Moore, J.R. Defoe, 511
Cox, E.G. Travel, I:371
Hogg, P.C. African slave trade, 705
Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 3276

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