Suchergebnisse

During his stay in the West Indies as a Dominican missionary, pere Labat was able to observe buccaneers and their ships. His adventures in this turbulent period are varied, but it is in the descriptions of the lives of the different races that the value of his memoirs resides.

Vol. 3-4 paged continuously. ; The maps are by the Sieur d'Anville. ; Vol. I has added t.-p. engr.: Nouveau voyage de Guinée, isles voisines et Cayenne. ; Account of Des Marchais' voyage, compiled from his memoirs, vol. 1-3, p. 133.--Description of French Guiana, its government, missions, natural history and natives, based on the memoirs of Chevalier de Milhau, and on the journal of the Jesuits Jean Grillet and François Béchamel, vol. 3, (p. 134-350), vol. 4, (p. 345-424).--Letters on missions in French Guiana by the Jesuit Pierre Aimé Lombard; "Code noir.servant de règlement pour le gouvernement.des isles françoises de l'Amérique, & pour la discipline & le commerce des nègres & esclaves dans le dit païs;" "Code noir.servant de règlement pour le gouvernement.& le commerce des esclaves nègres dans la province & colonie de la Louisianne;" "Compagnie angloise de l'assiento des nègres;" "Grammaire abregée ou entretien en langue françoise & celles des nègres de Juda [Whydah];" vol. 4, (p. 424-681). ; Mode of access: Internet.