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• History1

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• Penny, Joshua, 1773-18401

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• The life and adventures of Joshua Penny, a native of Southold, Long Island, Suffolk County, New York: who was impressed into the British service, and in one of his attempts to escape was fourteen months on the Table Mountain, at the Cape of Good Hope, and saw no human being during that time. In another instance he resided some time among the Hottentots. Interspersed with many curious incidents and hair breadth escapes. Also, an account of his being taken out of his bed by Commodore Hardy, on the night of Aug. 21, 1813--and carried to Halifax; where he suffered nine months imprisonment ..1

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• United States1

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• Title pages1

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• text1