Fort Nassau (Mowri), Gold Coast, late 17th cent.
View from the sea; note surrounding African town. Originally built by the Dutch in 1624, at the time of Barbot's writing, it was almost square, the front somewhat larger than the other sides . . . . It has . . .twenty-four guns; the garrison being forty white men, besides the hired blacks (pp. 174-175). Barbot was Agent-General of the Royal Company of Africa. 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). A version of this illustration was later published in Thomas Astley (ed.), A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels (London, 1745-47), vol. 2, plate 64, facing p. 608.
Image Title
Fort Nassau (Mowri), Gold Coast, late 17th cent.
RegID
SI-OB-101
Title
Fort Nassau (Mowri), 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 12, p. 175. (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--Mouri
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 12, p. 175.
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
LCP-56