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(title 17, U. S. Code).
(PIRACY.). RAY, WILLIAM. Horrors of Slavery: or, the American Tars in Tripoli. Containing an Account of the Loss and Capture of the United States Frigate Philadelphia...Written During Upwards of Nineteen Months' Imprisonment and Vassalage Among the Turks. Troy, [New York]: Oliver Lyon, 1808. 1st ed. 12mo. 298 pp. Illustrated. Old calf, rubbed; shaken. $425.00
S & S 16035 (five copies). Huntress 160C: "The Philadelphia grounded in the harbor of Tripoli, and was captured by the Tripolitans with all on board. Stephen Decatur led a small boat attack to burn her as she lay aground, and first achieved fame through this exploit. Attacks on the Barbary pirates eventually led to freeing the captured American sailors." Huntress does not collate the 18 pages of verse by Ray printed at the back of the book.