John Cockburn 
Unfortunate Englishmen [PDF ebook] 
Or a Faithful Narrative of the Distresses and Adventures of John Cockburn, and Five Other English Mariners, Who Were Taken by a Spanish Guarda Costa and Set on Shore at Porto Cavallo Naked and Wounded

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