Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Paul Cuffe, a Pequot Indian, During Thirty Years Spent at Sea, and in Travelling in Foreign Lands
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A first-person maritime memoir recounts thirty years of voyages, trade, and travel by a man of Pequot descent, describing early voyages with his father, long Atlantic and European crossings, cargos bought and sold, storms and near-shipwrecks, encounters with military engagements and wounded soldiers, visits to ports in Europe, the Azores, the West Indies and American harbors, periods of schooling and returns home, and practical observations of crews, passengers, and the commercial and social life encountered during extended seafaring.
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