Cabo Corso (Cape Coast) Castle, Gold Coast, late 17th cent.
View from the sea; African town on right. Barbot was Agent-General of the Royal Company of Africa. For details, see P.E.H. Hair, Adam Jones, and Robin Law, eds., Barbot on Guinea: The Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678-1712 (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1992).
Image Title
Cabo Corso (Cape Coast) Castle, Gold Coast, late 17th cent.
RegID
SI-OB-100
Title
Cabo Corso (Cape Coast) Castle, Gold Coast, late 17th cent.
Source
John Barbot, A Description of the coasts of North and South-Guinea . . . Now first printed from his original manuscript, In Awnsham and John Churchill (compilers), Collection of Voyages (London, 1732), vol. 5, plate 10, p. 169. (Copy in Library Company of Philadelphia; also, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)
Language
English
Item sets
European Forts & Trading Posts in Africa
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Voltaic--Cape Coast
Reproduced In
John Barbot, A Description of the coasts of North and South-Guinea . . . Now first printed from his original manuscript, In Awnsham and John Churchill (compilers), Collection of Voyages (London, 1732), vol. 5, plate 10, p. 169.
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
LCP-55