Book Title: Beschrijvinghe ende Historische verhael vant Gout koninckrijck von Guinea, anders de Gout-custe de Mina genaemt leggende in het deel van Africa. ... Mitsgaders oock een cort verhael van de passagie die de schepen derwaerts nemen deur de Canarische Eylanden, voorby Capo de Verde, langs de Guste van Manigette, tot aen Capo de Trespunctas, voorts vande Revieren diemen versoect int verseylen vande Gout-custe, tot aende Capo Lopo Gonsalves, ... / Pieter de Marees.

Author: Marees, Pieter de.

Image Title: How They Dress, or What Clothing the Men Wear Here

Description: This print gives a sense of how the native merchants and males of the Gold Coast dressed when Pieter de Maares (1770-1856 CE) and his expedition party encountered them. “A” shows a nobleman as he goes through the streets every day, with a cap on his head; “B” shows a merchant coming from distant lands to trade on the seashore, wearing a hat made “E” of dog-skin on his head and a roll of cotton or linen around his body; “C” indicates an interpreter, who comes with the merchants or peasants to buy things on the ships, having on his head a little hat made of sugar cane; and “D” shows how a merchant, having done his trade with the Dutch, returns home with his slaves, loaded with merchandise.

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