A voyage to Cochinchina in the years 1792 and 1793
Subtitle: containing a general view of the valuable productions and the political importance of this flourishing kingdom; and also of such European settlements as were visited on the voyage : with sketches of the manners, character, and condition of their several inhabitants : to which is annexed an account of a journey made in the years 1801 and 1802, to the residence of the chief of the Booshuana nation, being the remotest point in the interior of southern Africa to which Europeans have hitherto penetrated : the facts and descriptions taken from a manuscript journal with a chart of the route
By: by John Barrow ; illustrated and embellished with several engravings by Medland, coloured after the original drawings by Mr. Alexander and Mr. Daniell
Contributors: Alexander, William, 1767-1816, ill; Daniell, Samuel, 1775-1811, ill; Medland, Thomas, 18th/19th cent., ill; Russell, James Hamilton, former owner; Borden, Nannie Jenckes, former owner; Russell E. Train Africana Collection (Smithsonian Institution. Libraries)
Publisher: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies
Published: 1806
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
Subjects: Travel; Voyages around the world; Description and travel
Other titles: Barrow's Voyage to Cochinchin; Account of a journey to Leetako, the residence of the chief of the Booshuana Nation.
Notes: "An account of a journey to Leetako, the residence of the chief of the Booshuana Nation, being the remotest point in the interior of Southern Africa to which Europeans have hitherto penetrated. The facts and descriptions taken from a manuscript journal": p. [361]-437, taken from the Dutch ms. journal of Mr. Truter by Barrow.

"Strahan and Preston ... London"--Verso of t.p.

Plates are hand-colored.

Directions for placing the plates: p. [1], 2nd group.

Includes index.

Mendelssohn, S. South African bib., v. 1, p. 143

UC San Diego. Hill Coll., no. 551

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