The merchants' and mariners' African guide : the coast, bays, harbours, and adjacent islands of the West Africa
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The merchants' and mariners' African guide : the coast, bays, harbours, and adjacent islands of the West Africa
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Cambridge University Press, 2011
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Reprint. Originally published: London : J.W. Norie and Co., 1822
"This digitally printed version 2011"--T.p. verso
"This work of 1822 was written by Royal Navy Lieutenant Edward Bold to help sailors navigate from Britain to West Africa, via Madeira, the Canaries and the Cape Verde Islands. Bold was concerned about 'excessively erroneous hydrographic descriptions' that misled ships and put crews in danger. Writing after Britain's abolition of the slave trade, Bold was an advocate of developing other types of commerce with this region of Africa - an area, as he discovered, rich in valuable ivory - and part of the work describes the system of trade that stretched from port to port along the continent's western coast, including useful information such as that, upon arriving, sailors should indicate their desire to trade by 'firing a gun and hoisting your colours'. With its navigational detail and observations about trade, this work is a useful source on Anglo-African commerce in the nineteenth century."--Back cover
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Directions for sailing to the Madeiras
- 2. Directions through the Canaries
- 3. On the winds and calms peculiar to the Canaries
- 4. Coast of Africa from Cape Spartel to Cape Bogador
- 5. Description of the coast from Cape Bogador to Cape Verde
- 6. Cape Verde, or Salt Islands
- 7. General observations
- 8. Description of the coast from Cape Verde to Cape Roxo
- 9. Cape St. Mary to Roxo
- 10. From Cape Roxo to Sierra Leon, including the Rio Grande, its shoals, and the Isles de Loss
- 11. Mode of traffic from Grand Bassa to Cape Palmas
- 12. Description of the coast from Sierra Leon to Cape Mount
- 13. Sailing directions for the River Sherbro
- 14. The windward coast
- 15. From Cape Mount to the River St. John
- 16. On the system of traffic, or barter, pursued between Cape Mount and Grand Bassa
- 17. Description of the coast from Grand Bassa to Cape Palmas
- 18. Description of the coast from Cape Palmas to Cape Lahou
- 19. On the trade of Cape Palmas and Cape Lahou
- 20. Description of the Adou or Quaqua Coast, from Cape Lahou to Assinee
- 21. Description of the coast from Assinee to Cape St. Paul's
- 22. Description of the mode of traffic, employed from Cape Lahou to Cape St. Paul's
- 23. Description of the coast from Cape St. Paul's to Cape Formoso, constituting what is called the Bight of Benin
- 24. Mode of barter of Benin
- 25. Description of the coast from Cape Formosa to Cameroon's River in the Bight of Biaffra
- 26. Directions for sailing into Old Callebar
- 27. On the system of the Callebar trade
- 28. From Callebar to Cameroon's River
- 29. On the Cameroon's trade
- 30. Description of the islands in the Bight of Biaffra, namely: Fernandepo, Princes, St. Thomas, and Anno Bom
- 31. Description of the coast from Cameroons to Cape St. John, and from thence to Cape Lopez, including the Rivers Gabon and Danger
- 32. Description of the coast from Cape Lopez to the Congo
- 33. Description of the Congo
- 34. Description of the coast from Cape Padron to Loando St. Paul
- 35. Description of the Cape of Good Hope, with its adjacent bays
- 36. The island of St. Helena
- 37. The island of Ascension
- 38. Of the passages to and from the coast of Africa, etc.
- 39. On the homeward passage.
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