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Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar

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Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar

Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar

Performed in HM Ships Leven and Barracouta
Volume 2:
William Fitzwilliam Owen
Heaton Bowstead Robinson
July 2012
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    William Fitzwilliam Owen (1774–1857) was a British naval officer. Between 1821 and 1826 he commanded an expedition to Africa, Arabia and Madagascar with the Royal Navy ships Leven and Barracouta, during which he mapped some 30,000 miles of coastline. His memoirs of the voyage are presented in this two-volume account, first published in 1833. Volume 2 continues to describe the rituals of the native peoples whom Owen's crew encountered - and who were at times hostile - and the tragic deaths on board the ships from tropical diseases, which with better planning might have been avoided. The volume also covers the lives of colonists and missionaries, the slave trade, and the spread of European influence across Africa and its neighbouring lands. Providing a vivid account of African exploration in the nineteenth century, Owen's writings remain of great interest to geographers, historians and anthropologists.

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    July 2012
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    9781108050647
    444 pages
    216 × 140 × 25 mm
    0.56kg
    3 b/w illus. 2 maps
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    Table of Contents

    • 1. Quit Zanzibar
    • 2. Querimba Islands
    • 3. Leave the Barracouta
    • 4. Harbour of Tamatave
    • 5. The Senna expedition
    • 6. Town of Senna
    • 7. A priest's extortion
    • 8. Sandy island
    • 9. Coast of Madagascar
    • 10. Radama
    • 11. Interview with Radama
    • 12. Commerce
    • 13. The funeral
    • 14. The Seychelles islands
    • 15. A massacre
    • 16. Leave the Seychelles
    • 17. Join the 'Albatross'
    • 18. A boy sold
    • 19. Kidnapped seamen
    • 20. A native king's son
    • 21. Bijooga islands
    • 22. Captain Vidal's proceedings
    • 23. Population and commerce
    • 24. Scenery in Kabenda bay
    • 25. People of Cape Lopez
    • 25a. Corisco bay
    • 26. Fernando Po
    • 27. Intended visit to King Peppel
    • 28. Rivers between Cape Formosa and the Bonny
    • 29. Survey of the Gambia
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