Jean Barbot

A description of the coasts of north and south-Guinea, and of Ethiopia inferior, vulgarly Angola being a new and accurate account of the western maritime countries of Africa [S.l. : s.n.,] 1732.

Barbot, agent-general of the Royal Company of Africa and Islands of America, provides a general account of the places he visited. Because of his profession, he was most interested in European settlements and trade. He meticulously collected information, and claims that he "day by day gather'd all the memoirs, notes, remarks, and figures I could judge useful, diverting, or curious, and transcrib'd the whole again ..."

Among the illustrations are views of coastal settlements and depictions of wildlife and native peoples, such as this plate, illustrating life along the Cestos River, in modern Liberia.