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= Tiele 174; Gay 2808; Henze I, 304 ("zuverlässiger und vollständiger als die früheren Berichte über Ober-Guinea"); cat. NHSM p.204 and cf. Kainbacher I, p.153. The work is divided in 22 letters, written from S. George del Mina, the main Dutch trading-station, where the author was chief merchant in the service of the West-India-Company from 1689-1702. Chief source for the knowledge of Dutch slave-trade during the latter half of the 17th century and important for the history of the commercial rivalry with the English, Danes and Brandeburgers. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXIV.