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The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope
Transcribed from the First English Edition

This volume of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1889) contains the memoirs of traveller François Leguat (1637–1735).

Samuel Pasfield Oliver (Edited by), François Leguat (Author)

9781108013529, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2010

348 pages, 14 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.44 kg

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. François Leguat (1637–1735) was a French Huguenot who became the leader of a group of seven Huguenot refugees forced to colonise the island of Rodriguez in 1693, after the French claimed their intended destination, the Ile de Réunion. He remained on the island for two years, before escaping via the neighbouring island of Mauritius. Volume 2 describes his imprisonment on Mauritius and in Jakarta before his return to Europe via the Cape of Good Hope in 1698.

Table of contents
List of illustrations and maps
Bibliography
List of illustrations and maps in original edition
Addenda et corrigenda
Part II: Voyage from Rodriguez to Mauritius
Adventures in that island, Java, and at the Cape of Good Hope
Return of the adventurers to Holland
Thanksgiving hymn
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: African history [HBJH]

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