Achttien jaren aan de Goudkust /
Cruickshank, Brodie.
Weijtingh, D.P.H.J.
Amsterdam : Weijtingh & Van Der Haart,
1855.
First edition of the enlarged Dutch translation of Brodie Cruickshank's work "Eighteen years on the Gold Coast of Africa, including an account of the native tribes and their intercourse with Europeans" (London, 1853). This account of an 18 years' stay on the Gold Coast of Africa of Scottish missionary and trader Brodie Cruickshank covers the music, religion, dance, social customs and judicial system of the native people of this African region. The Dutch translation was done by D.P.H.J. Weijtingh, who enlarged the work with an introduction in which he elaborates on the history of the Dutch possessions on the Gold Coast of Africa. The folding lithographed view of the Dutch Fort Coenraadsburg at Elmina (Ghana) was newly made for the present Dutch edition, the first English edition had no illustrations. The lithograph was made by W. Bartels. Fort Coenraadsburg was the second Dutch fort at Elmina, construction was begun in 1637, immediately after the Dutch expelled the Portuguese.