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Richard Jobson (explorer)

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The Golden Trade, or a Discovery of the River Gambra and the Golden Trade of the Æthiopians; also the Commerce with a great blacke merchant called Buckor Sano, and his report of the houses covered with gold, and other strange observations for the good of our owne countrey, set downe as they were
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Somewhere in Gambia, Jobson refused to purchase some female slaves, stating that "We were a people, who did not deal in any such commodities, neither did wee buy or sell one another, or any that had our owne shapes;"
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Jobson, sailing from England on 25 October 1620, and arriving at the mouth of the Gambia on 17 November, went up the river beyond the
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collected in travelling part of the yeares 1620 and 1621; by Richard Jobson, gentleman
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of West Africa. He is only known from his writings on his 1620–1621 voyage to the
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He was appointed in 1620 to command an expedition to explore the
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After his return to England in 1621, Jobson published
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