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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An address from the Brethren's Society for the furtherance of the Gospel among the heathen , To the members of the congregation and societies of the Brethren, and to all those friends who wish success to the missions of the church of the brethren.
Brethren's Society for the furtherance of the Gospel among the Heathen.Date: 1781]- E-books
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A Voyage to the New Island Fonseca, near Barbadoes . With some observations made in a Cruize among the Leward Islands. In letters from two captains of Turkish men of war, driven theither in the year 1707. Translated out of Turkish and French.
Date: Printed in the year 1708- 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]