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Image Reference
DAP5
Source
D. O. Dapper, Description de l'Afrique . . . Traduite du Flamand (Amsterdam,1686; 1st ed., 1668), between pp. 284 and 285. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
Comments
View from the sea. European shipping in foreground, African houses/town shown in left hand corner and in various areas around the fort. For an informed discussion of Dapper as an historical source, see Adam Jones, Decompiling Dapper: A Preliminary Search for Evidence (History in Africa, vol. 17 [1990], pp. 171-290).
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