un-authenticated

Updated: May 3, 2025

Likewise, the "highly irregular proceedings" were a naval synonym for some of the bloodiest slaving outrages ever perpetrated, but which, however, never came to light beyond being alluded to as "unreliable and un-authenticated statements by discharged and drunken seamen who had no proper documentary evidence to support their assertions."

Louis Becke - Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories: 1898