Corrections and amendments in another hand Early, apparently unpublished manuscript account of a voyage from India to the Cape of Good Hope in the late eighteenth century.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
Address in lower left corner: 167, Queen's Gate, S.W.7 Removed from Aino (Krohn) Kallas, The White Ship... London, Jonathan Cape, 1924 (Lilly PH355 .K3 W58).
In French Sender's name determined from dealer's note Also present is statement concerning the published revocation, Nov. 1685. Autograph document 1 p. 21 cm. Removed from Edit du roy portant revocations de celuy de Nantes... Vennes: chez Moricet la Veuve Vatar, 1685 (Lilly BR845 .A4 1685).