The Discovery of River Gambra, 1623

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Contents: List of maps and illustrations Preface Part I: Jobsona (TM)s texts: Introduction The sources The English and River Gambia: English trading voyages to Senegambia 1587a 1621 The 1618 and 1619 English voyages to River Gambia The English in River Gambia 1620a 1621 Richard Jobson The African setting: the River The African setting: polities and peoples The Golden Trade or, A Discovery of the River Gambra (1623) Jobsona (TM)s large journall (1620a 1621) Jobsona (TM)s petition (?1626) Appendix A Jobsona (TM)s itinerary Appendix B The middle river base Appendix C Text of the Gerbier map, in translation Appendix D Account of the Upper River by Governor MacDonnell, 1848 Part II: Other early sources on River Gambia: Cadamosto (1455 and 1456 voyages) Usodimare (1455 voyage) Diogo Gomes (1455/1456 and (?) 1458 voyages) Duarte Pacheco Pereira (c. 1508) Valentim Fernandes (c. 1508) Joao de Barros (1552) Francisco de Andrade (1582) AndrA(c) Aulvares de Almada (c. 1594) AndrA(c) Donelha (1625) Francisco de Lemos Coelho (1669/1684) Bibliography Maps of the Gambia 1468a 1980 List of marginal notes (side notes) Index.

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