The first edition of one of the most interesting of the Dutch 19th-century books on West Africa by the Dutch military physician Jan Simon Gerardus Gramberg (1823-1888). Gramberg arrived at Fort Saint George in Elmina (São Jorge da Mina) in 1856, where he explored the coast and inland of the Gold Coast. Later he founded a cotton plantation on the Bossum-prah (Pra) River in present-day Ghana. The book is divided into three parts. In the first part, Gramberg gives a concise description of West Africa: its history (with remarks on the Spanish and Portuguese properties there) climate, geology, religion, education, flora, fauna etc. As a physician, Gramberg included some interesting information on common diseases in the area. The second part contains Gramberg's own travelogue, in which he gives descriptions of Elmina, Cape Coast, Accra, Ouidah, and other places, with an illustration of a trading post and Gramberg's own plantation, and finally a part on the Dutch properties in West Africa.