[Africa] 1747 Natives in Kachao and Bissau, in Upper Guinea - Thomas Astley

This engraving is divided into three
sections: the top shows the Portuguese colony and town of Kachao in the
Upper Guinea Coast region; the bottom two scenes show people grinding,
cooking and growing manioc at Kachao and Bissau, which is a root
vegetable of New World origin. Thomas Astley (d. 1759) was a British
bookseller and publisher who never went to Africa. His imagined
localities and illustrations of Africa were informed by a library of
travel books at his disposal.

"Plate XVI" in Thomas Astley (ed.), A
New General Collection of Voyages and Travels, vol. 2 (London: Thomas
Astley, 1745-1747), facing p. 90.

Astley, Thomas