| 词条 | Commerce (1815 ship) |
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Commerce, sailing from Gibraltar to Cape Verde Islands, was under the command of American Captain James Riley and crewed by 11 others. Most were Americans. After sailing for several days in dense fog, the ship ran aground on a reef near Cape Bojador. After being attacked and ransacked on shore by Sahrawi natives, who killed in cold blood one of the seamen, the crew returned to their rowboat and attempted to reach the Cape Verde Islands or hoped to meet another passing ship. This proved impossible, as their meager provisions were running out, and they decided to return to shore and take their chances with the local tribes. Landing some 300 miles further south down the coast, near Cape Barbas, less than one hundred miles North of Cape Blanco, they were taken captive by nomads of the Oulad Bou Sbaa tribe. The survivors were eventually rescued thanks to James Simpson, the American consul at Tangier. Morocco had been the first country to recognize the United States and attempted to maintain generally friendly relations despite the behavior of corsairs and raiders within their borders. The survivors' story of extreme dehydration, severe starvation, and ever-present brutality while roaming the Sahara desert with their captors became a published story, first in the 1820s in retelling by Captain Riley himself and then in the 2004 account Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by American writer Dean H. King. The original Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce by the "Late Master and Supercargo James Riley is quoted by Abraham Lincoln as one of the six most influential books he read in his youth and was republished as Sufferings in Africa.[3] Citations1. ^1. 2. ^{{cite book| last = King| first = Dean| title = Skeletons on the Zahara| publisher = Little, Brown and Company| year = 2004| isbn = 978-0-316-83514-5}} 3. ^{{cite book|last=Riley|first=James|author2=Gordon H. Evans|title=Sufferings in Africa: The Astonishing Account of a New England Sea Captain Enslaved by North African Arabs|publisher=Globe Pequot|year= 2007|isbn=978-1-59921-211-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xMjTJL1GjJAC }} Further reading
| last = King | first = Dean | title = Skeletons on the Zahara | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | year = 2004 | isbn = 978-0-316-83514-5 }}
| last = Riley | first =James | title = Sufferings in Africa | publisher = | year = 1815 | isbn =1-59048-108-9 }}{{coord missing|Atlantic Ocean}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Commerce (Ship)}} 2 : Shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean|1800s ships |
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