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: About Their Markets, How They Hold Them, and What Kind of Trading Is Done There

Description: This print shows the Market of Cabo Corsso, just over a mile to the east of the Castle de Mina, as it appeared to the Dutch trader and explorer Pieter de Maares (1770-1856 CE) and his expedition party. “A” is the house or residence of the captain of this place; “B” is the hut or barn in which the captain stores his millie; “C” is the market for bananas and fruits, as well as the place where they sell meat; “D” is the lodge where peasants come and sit in the market with their pots of palm wine; “E” is the chicken market; “F” is the fish market; “G” is the wood market; “H” is the rice market; “I” is the place where fresh water is sold; “K” is the early market, where they sell sugar cane; “L” is the Holland linen that the peasants brought ashore from the ships lying opposite their quarter; “M” is the place where women from the Castle de Mina come and sit in the market with their Kanquies; “N” is the sacrificial table of their god; “O” are the Dutchmen who came to the market to buy something; and “P” is the captain’s guardsmen.

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