The East African coast
Subtitle: select documents from the first to the earlier nineteenth century.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1962
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Africa, East -- History -- Sources.
Table of contents: title: The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea : a first century traveller’s handbook -- Claudius Ptolemy’s Geography : the knowledge of fourth- century Byzantium -- Cosmas Indicopleustes : a trading voyage to Ceylon in A.D. 525 -- Tuan Ch’eng-shih : Chinese knowledge in the ninth century -- Buzurg ibn Shahriyar of Ramhormuz : a tenth-century slaving adventure -- al-Mas’udi : the ivory trade -- Ibn Hawqal : Whites in Zanzibar -- al-Idrisi : the first western notice of East Africa -- Chao Ju-Kua : Zanzibar and Somalia in the thirteenth century -- Abu al-Fida : Malindi, Mombasa, and Sofala -- Marco Polo : the People and Trade of Zanzibar -- Ibn Battuta : a visit to Zeila, Mogadishu, Mombasa, and Kilwa Kisiwani in 1331 -- Abu al-Mahasin : on Mombasa, Mogadishu, and Lamu in 1441 -- Anonymous : an Arabic History of Kilwa Kisiwani C. 1520 -- Vasco da Gama’s Discovery of East Africa for Portugal 1498 -- Vasco da Gama’s return from India 1499 -- The Anonymous Narrative of the Voyage of Pedro Alvares Cabral 1500 -- King Manuel of Portugal to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, 29 July 1501 -- Vasco da Gama’s second voyage 1502 -- Ruy Lourenço Ravasco in Zanzibar 1503-4 -- The expedition of Dom Francisco d’Almeida 1505 -- The sack of Kilwa and Mombasa : an eye-witness account of 1505 -- Nuno Vaz Pereira’s settlement of Kilwa affairs 1506 -- Diogo daAlcaçova to the King of Portugal, 20 November 1506 -- Tomé Pires : Trade Relations of the East Coast with Europe, Arabia, and the Far East -- Duarte Barbosa : an account of the East Coast c. 1517-18 -- St. Francis Xavier : a visit to Malindi and Socotra in 1542 -- Father Monclaro : a journey from Kilwa to Pate in 1569 -- van Linschoten : the first Dutch information on East Africa -- Father Joâo dos Santos : the Zimba cannibals 1592-3 -- Sir James Lancaster : the first English visit 1591-2 -- Gaspar de S. Bernadino : a journey along the coast in 1606 -- A. Bocarro : Gaspar Bocarro’s journey from Tete to Kilwa in 1616 -- Anonymous : the Rebellion of Mombasa 1631 -- Rezende’s Description of Mombasa 1634 -- William Alley : an English visitor to Mombasa in 1667 -- Monsieur Morice : a Slaving Treaty with the Sultan of Kilwa 1776 -- J. Crassons de Medeuil : the French Slave Trade in Kilwa C. 1784-5 -- Captain P. Dallons : Zanzibar in 1804 -- J. Prior : Voyage in the Nisus Frigate -- Anonymous : a History of Mombasa c. 1824 -- The Ancient History of Kilwa Kisiwani -- The Ancient History of Lindi -- The History of Sudi -- The Ancient History of Dar es-Salaam -- The History of Former Times in Bagamoyo -- The History of Pate -- The History of Kua, Juani Island, Mafia.