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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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460 p. illus., ports., map.
Alternative Title
Judicious abridgement of the latest and most authentic travels through Africa.
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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
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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Judicious abridgement of the latest and most authentic travels through Africa.
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Sc Rare 916-A (Africa explored)
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