What has the author Jean Barbot written?
Jean Barbot was an agent of the Dutch West India Company. He made three notable voyages to the coasts of Africa and America—a voyage from France in 1678 via West Africa to the West Indies, of which he gave an account in "Relation de la Cote de l'Afrique Occidentale" (included in de Montfort's Recueil de voyages, 1683); another voyage in 1682, via the Canaries to the West Indies, of which he gave an account in "Description des Isles de l'Amerique" (included in de Montfort's Recueil de Voyages, 1683); and in 1698 the voyage for which he is best known, published as "Relation Historique de l'Afrique Occidentale" in 1714, which contains "a remarkable description of the Kingdoms and Countries there, viz.: Senega, Gambia, Sierra Leone, the Grain-coast, the Ivory-coast, the Gold-coast, the Slave-coast, the kingdom of Benin, and that of Loango".