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Africa explored; or, A judicious abridgement of the latest and most authentic travels through Africa
- Title
- Africa explored; or, A judicious abridgement of the latest and most authentic travels through Africa, by Vaillant ... [and others] containing a body of important and useful information concerning that continent, which exhibits a very satisfactory account of the manners, literature, religion, government and commerce of the inhabitants, together with the natural productions of that quarter of the globe, and a particular account of that part of the country situated on the River Sierra Leona where the English have a settlement, and of the Cape of Good Hope, as also a circumstantial account of the loss of the Grosvenor East Indiaman, with a relation of the events that befell the crew, &c.
- Publication
- Edinburgh, J. Watson, 1796.
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- Description
- 460 p. illus., ports., map.
- Alternative Title
- Judicious abridgement of the latest and most authentic travels through Africa.
- Subjects
- Note
- "The first part of this collection is completed, and the separate numbers in which it has been published are now to be united into one volume." - Pref.
- Contents
- Travels of M. Vaillant.--Travels of Dr. Andrew Sparrman.--Matthews' voyage to the Slave Coast.--Mr. Norris' journey to Abomey, the capital of Dahomy, an inland kingdom of Guiney; with memoirs of the reign of Bossa Ahadee, King of Dahomy.--Poiret's travels in Barbary.--Mr. Lucas's travels.--A circumstantial account of the loss of the Grosvenor East-Indiaman, on the South-east coast of Africa; together with a relation of the events which befel the crew and passengers, as given by the survirors who have reached England, Robert Price, Thomas Lewis, John Warmington, and Robert Larey.
- Call Number
- Sc Rare 916-A (Africa explored)
- OCLC
- 27690548
- 27690548
- Title
- Africa explored; or, A judicious abridgement of the latest and most authentic travels through Africa, by Vaillant ... [and others] containing a body of important and useful information concerning that continent, which exhibits a very satisfactory account of the manners, literature, religion, government and commerce of the inhabitants, together with the natural productions of that quarter of the globe, and a particular account of that part of the country situated on the River Sierra Leona where the English have a settlement, and of the Cape of Good Hope, as also a circumstantial account of the loss of the Grosvenor East Indiaman, with a relation of the events that befell the crew, &c.
- Imprint
- Edinburgh, J. Watson, 1796.
- Local Note
- Also available on microfilm in: Sc Micro R-6445.
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- Added Title
- Judicious abridgement of the latest and most authentic travels through Africa.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Rare 916-A (Africa explored)