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West Africa ['Nigritian Africa'].
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Itinerary: 'NIGRITIAN AFRICA from the river Senegal to Cape Negro [i.e. Cabo Negro in modern Angola]; with an account of Prince's Isle, Isle of St. Thomas [i.e. São Tomé and Príncipe], Isle of Ascension, and that of St. Helena'. See 'The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell' (1796), p. 320.
Pennant mentions working on the African volumes of the 'Outlines' in letters to Richard Bull dated from 23 August 1788, and seeking prints to illustrate them in a letter dated 17 February 1791: see 'Curious Travellers Editions' [https://editions.curioustravellers.ac.uk/], item ID 1080, 1082 & 1121.
Information supplied by 'my worthy friend Richard Wilding esqr. of Llanrhaiadr in the county of Denbigh, who resided twelve years on the coast of Guinea': pp. 3–4. Wilding was a prominent trader in enslaved Africans, associated with late eighteenth-century Liverpool. Further eyewitness information supplied by 'My friend the reverend Mr. [Samuel] Dick[e]nson' (see also previous volume), p. 62. An account of British African traveller Francis Moore (c.1708—c.1756) comes from 'Doctor [Treadway] Nash' (1724–1811), pp. 167–168. Also cites 'a list of the principal trees and plants of Senegal' supplied by the Rev. John Lightfoot (1735–1788), p. 45; 'a friend of mine' who observed a river on the 'Ile of Annabon' [i.e. Annobón], p. 288; an abbreviated 'journal' of a voyage from Bombay to 'the Cape', St. Helena, Ascension, and Spithead, p. 323.
Some information on enslavement gathered from abolitionist sources, e.g. reference to Alexander Falconbridge's 'An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa' (London, 1788), and an insert of one of the famous 'Description prints of the slave ship Brookes', pp. 234–235.
Views of 'The Island of Ascension', pp. 302–303. Also of St. Helena, pp. 318-319.
Full itinerary, general index, and indexes to 'Plants', 'Quadrupeds', and 'Birds' in rear of volume.
Itinerary: 'NIGRITIAN AFRICA from the river Senegal to Cape Negro [i.e. Cabo Negro in modern Angola]; with an account of Prince's Isle, Isle of St. Thomas [i.e. São Tomé and Príncipe], Isle of Ascension, and that of St. Helena'. See 'The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell' (1796), p. 320.
Pennant mentions working on the African volumes of the 'Outlines' in letters to Richard Bull dated from 23 August 1788, and seeking prints to illustrate them in a letter dated 17 February 1791: see 'Curious Travellers Editions' [https://editions.curioustravellers.ac.uk/], item ID 1080, 1082 & 1121.
Information supplied by 'my worthy friend Richard Wilding esqr. of Llanrhaiadr in the county of Denbigh, who resided twelve years on the coast of Guinea': pp. 3–4. Wilding was a prominent trader in enslaved Africans, associated with late eighteenth-century Liverpool. Further eyewitness information supplied by 'My friend the reverend Mr. [Samuel] Dick[e]nson' (see also previous volume), p. 62. An account of British African traveller Francis Moore (c.1708—c.1756) comes from 'Doctor [Treadway] Nash' (1724–1811), pp. 167–168. Also cites 'a list of the principal trees and plants of Senegal' supplied by the Rev. John Lightfoot (1735–1788), p. 45; 'a friend of mine' who observed a river on the 'Ile of Annabon' [i.e. Annobón], p. 288; an abbreviated 'journal' of a voyage from Bombay to 'the Cape', St. Helena, Ascension, and Spithead, p. 323.
Some information on enslavement gathered from abolitionist sources, e.g. reference to Alexander Falconbridge's 'An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa' (London, 1788), and an insert of one of the famous 'Description prints of the slave ship Brookes', pp. 234–235.
Views of 'The Island of Ascension', pp. 302–303. Also of St. Helena, pp. 318-319.
Full itinerary, general index, and indexes to 'Plants', 'Quadrupeds', and 'Birds' in rear of volume.
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