Journal d'un Voyage... India and South Africa., 1798, February 26-1799, January 26 - box 2
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- 1798, February 26-1799, January 26 -
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- Corrections and amendments in another hand Early, apparently unpublished manuscript account of a voyage from India to the Cape of Good Hope in the late eighteenth century. Prompted by close friends, the author's account describes a region then little known to the French. The Napoleonic Wars were underway at this time and the author speculates on the military campaign in Egypt and its ramifications for the rest of the continent. Author includes considerable ethnographic information, including speculations on the political impact of the region's geography, differences between tribes, and a physical description of the Caffres and their marriage customs, religion, and agriculture, as well as notes on the natural history encountered. Of linguistic interest is the six page vocabulary at the rear of the document
- Abstract Or Scope
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- Corrections and amendments in another hand
- Early, apparently unpublished manuscript account of a voyage from India to the Cape of Good Hope in the late eighteenth century. Prompted by close friends, the author's account describes a region then little known to the French. The Napoleonic Wars were underway at this time and the author speculates on the military campaign in Egypt and its ramifications for the rest of the continent.
- Author includes considerable ethnographic information, including speculations on the political impact of the region's geography, differences between tribes, and a physical description of the Caffres and their marriage customs, religion, and agriculture, as well as notes on the natural history encountered.
- Of linguistic interest is the six page vocabulary at the rear of the document
- Collection Context