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Narrative of the Voyage of H.M. Vessels LEVEN and BARRACOUTA by Thomas Boteler. (Manuscript) 1822-1823 BTL/2/1/1
Volume of narrative of a survey of various African coastal areas by Thomas Boteler, in the form of an informal but extremely informative journal.…
Illustration: "MunKopaline, Delagoa, Oct 10, 1822". (Manuscript) 1822 BTL/2/1/29
Black ink drawing of a Delagoan man smoking a pipe, dressed in a high-collared European-style coat. "MunKopaline" is an approximate transcription of the annotation.
Illustration without title or annotation, of an unknown object. (Manuscript) 1822-1823 BTL/2/1/32
Black ink drawing of an unknown object, which appears to be some sort of bag or container.
Illustration, without title or annotation, of a pirate. (Manuscript) 1822-1823 BTL/2/1/34
Black ink and watercolour drawing of a pirate, pointing towards a violent encounter between five people in the middle-distance, with a fort in the background flying the Jolly Roger flag.
Illustration: "Huts at Benguela page 15 Ch 17 / No. 36". (Manuscript) 1822-1823 BTL/2/1/23
Black ink drawing of three dome-shaped huts, with a man and a pot cooking over a fire in the foreground. Benguela is now a city in western Angola, south of Luanda, and capital of Benguela Province. By this point, the ships had travelled round the Cape of Good Hope to the West Coast of Africa.
Illustration: "Madagascan burial place, page 9 Chapter 12 / No. 34". (Manuscript) 1822-1823 BTL/2/1/22
Small black ink drawing of a small slanting wooden structure, which appears to jut out from the side of a rock face.
Illustration: "W. Coast Africa natural arch page (?) Ch 17 / No. 37". (Manuscript) 1822-1823 BTL/2/1/24
Small black ink and watercolour drawing of a sea arch viewed from the water.
Illustration: "Fetiche dance Cape Lopez page 28 Ch 18 / No. 41". (Manuscript) 1822-1823 BTL/2/1/25
Black ink and watercolour drawing of a group of people dancing and playing music. One dancer is on stilts and wearing an elaborate, otherworldly costume and mask. Cape Lopez is a 55 km-long peninsula on the coast of West-Central Africa, in the country of Gabon.
Illustration: "Tutueila native dance". (Manuscript) 1822-1823 BTL/2/1/31
Black ink drawing of a group of people dancing. "Tutueila" is an approximate transcription of the annotation. The back of the page contains the title of the drawing and a small drawing of a boat.
Illustration: "Poor Tom / No. 26". (Manuscript) 1822-1823 BTL/2/1/19
Black ink and watercolour drawing of a man wearing a conical hat and glasses, carrying a telescope, standing on a small ship. The title could be "Poor Tom" or "Poor I am", it is not clear.…
Illustration: "Delagoa hut, E. Coast of Africa / Chapter 2". (Manuscript) 1822-1823 BTL/2/1/10
Three black ink drawings of a round hut: the top drawing sets the hut in its landscape, with the sea and a European ship in the right hand of the background (much like the watercolour drawing BTL/2/1/3); the middle drawing is a cross section of the hut from the centre of the roof, looking down on a …
Illustration: "Attack of the Oratontahs on our encampment at Delagoa / Chapter II". (Manuscript) 1822-1823 BTL/2/1/11
Black ink drawing (over pencil sketch) of three men with spears and shields emerging from dense vegetation.
Illustration: "TchinTchingahney the Oratontah Chief, page 48 Ch 2 / No. 10". (Manuscript) 1822-1823 BTL/2/1/6
Watercolour and black ink drawing of a young African chief, with spears and shield. There is a very detailed description in the Narrative of the voyage of the Leven and Barracouta, on pages 46-50 (in the volume, the chief's name is sometimes spelled Chinchinganay).…
Illustration: "African snail & shell sometimes twice this size / No. 8". (Manuscript) 1822-1823 BTL/2/1/5
Two watercolour and black ink drawings pasted onto one sheet, one of an African snail, with a focus on the detail of the snail's body, and one of an empty African snail shell, which focuses on the detail of the shell pattern.
Illustration: "Delagoa Boat, East Coast of Africa, Scale of 1/3 of an inch to a foot / Ch II". (Manuscript) 1822-1823 BTL/2/1/9
Black ink drawing (over pencil sketch) of a boat from above and from the side, with a scale of feet which suggests the boat would have been around 20 feet long. There is a detail of the stern in the top left corner.