A description of the coasts of north and south Guinea; and of Ethiopia inferior, vulgary Angola; being a new and accurate account of the western maritime countries of Africa. In six books. Containing a geographical, political, and natural history of the kingdoms, provinces, common-wealth, territories and islands belonging to it. Their products, inhabitants, manners, languages, trade, wars, policy and religion. With a full account of all the european settlements; their rise, progress and present conditions; their commerce, and measures for improving the several branches of the Guinea and Angola trade. Also of trade winds, breezes, tornadoes, harmatans, tides and currents, &c. and a new relation of the Province of Guiana, and of the great rivers of Amazonas and Oronoque in South America. With an appendix; being a general account of the first discoveries of America in the fourteen century, and some observations thereon. And a geographical, political, and natural history of the Antilles islands, in the North Sea of America. illustrated with a great number of useful maps and cuts, engraven on copper; very exactly drawn upon the place. By John Barbot, general agent of the Royal Company of Africa, and islands of America in Paris. Now first printed from his original manuscript