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Synopsis

Historical and descriptive sketches of madeira, canary, biafra, and cape verd islands; their climates, inhabitants, and productions. accounts of places, peoples, customs, trade, missionary operations, etc., etc., on that part of the african coast lying between tangier, morocco, and benguela. by rev. chas. w. thomas, m.a., member of the georgia conference; chaplain to the african squadron in 1855, 1856 and 1857. with illustrations from original drawings.

Item Description

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. 479 + [i] pp. publisher's advertisement. Separate section title pages for the islands. Bound in original brown cloth, gilt, with decorative gilt borders on boards. Slight loss of cloth at head of spine which is sunned and some foxing confined to preliminaries and at end; otherwise a very good copy. Ownership signatures on front pastedown and verso of title. Illustrated by 4 engraved plates, including frontispiece and by map. Account of travels on the west coast of Africa from Tangier and then to The Gambia River, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Gold Coast, the Volta, Guinea and Angola, with visits to the islands of Cape Verde, the Canaries/Tenerife and Madeira. The author was a clergyman attached as chaplain to the African Squadron of the US Navy in 1855, 56 and 57 and also includes of the mission stations he visited.