Extracts from despatches by Laurens Storm van 's Gravesande to the directors of the Zeeland Chamber of the Dutch West India Company, 1738-72, selected to illustrate the rise and expansion of the colony, with a detailed introduction. This volume ends with the despatch dated 15 March 1760. For May 1760 to September 1772, see the following volume (Second Series 27), with which the pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1911.

Excerpt from Storm Van's Gravesande, Vol. 1: The Rise of British Guiana; Compiled From His Despatches We ought perhaps to add David Pietersz. De Vries as a fairly early eye-witness to the state of Guiana. Though his voyage to that country was made in 1634 his work, Korte Historiael ena'e journaels aenteyekenz'nge van verse/zeijden Voyagiens, was not published until 1655. Cf. P. 148. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.