West Indies - Description and travel - Early works to 1800
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A voyage to Guinea, Brasil, and the West-Indies; in His Majesty's Ships, the Swallow and Weymouth. Describing the several Islands and Settlements, Viz-Madeira, the Canaries, Cape de Verd, Sierraleon, Sesthos, Cape Apollonia, Cabo Corso, and others on the Guinea Coast; Barbadoes, Jamaica, &c. in the West-Indies. The Colour, Diet, Languages, Habits, Manners, Customs, and Religions of the respective Natives, and Inhabitants. With Remarks on the Gold, Ivory, and Slave-Trade; and on the Winds, Tides and Currents of the several Coasts. By John Atkins, Surgeon in the Royal Navy
Atkins, John, 1685-1757.Date: M.DCC.XXXV. [1735]- E-books
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A voyage to Guinea, Brasil, and the West-Indies; in His Majesty's Ships the Swallow and Weymouth. Giving a Genuine Account of the several Islands and Settlements of Madeira, the Canaries, Cape de Vard. Sierraleon, Sesthos, Cape Apollonia, Cabo Corso, and others on the Guinea Shore; Likewise Barbardoes, Jamaica, &c. in the West-Indies. Describing the Colour, Diet, Languages Habits, Manners, Customs, and Religions of the respective Natives and Inhabitants. With Remarks on the Gold, Ivory, and Slave-Trade: and on the Winds, Tides and Currents of the several Coasts. By John Atkins, Gent. Of Plaistow, in Essex
Atkins, John, 1685-1757.Date: [1737]- E-books
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A voyage to North-America: undertaken by command of the present King of France. Containing the geographical description and natural history of Canada and Louisiana. With The Customs, Manners, Trade and Religion of the Inhabitants; a Description of the Lakes and Rivers, with their Navigation and Manner of passing the Great Cataracts. By Father Charlevoix. Also, A Description and Natural History of the Islands in the West Indies belonging to the different Powers of Europe. Illustrated with a Number of curious Prints and Maps not in any other Edition. In two volumes
Charlevoix, Pierre-Fran�cois-Xavier de, 1682-1761.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- E-books
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Proposals for printing by subscription, Voyages and travels in Africa and the West-Indies, from the year 1771 to the year 1779 inclusive, by Henry Smeathman
Smeathman, Henry, -1786.Date: 1780?]- E-books
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The voyages and travels of that renowned captain Sir Francis Drake . Into the West-Indies, and round about the world. Giving a perfect Relation of his strange Adventures, and many wonderful Discoveries; his Fight with the Spaniard, and many barbarous Nations; his taking St. Jago, St. Domingo, Carthagena, St. Augusta, and many other Places in the Golden Country of America, and other Parts of the World: His Description of Monsters, and monstrous People. With many other remarkable Passages not before extant, contained in the History of his Life and Death, both pleasant and profitable to the Reader.
Francis DrakeDate: [1725?]