'A visit to the King of Benin': a journal by Punch, then a trader in West Africa, 1889 (manuscript and separate transcript); with extracts from the diary of Antera Duke, an Efik slave-trading Chief in Calabar, 1785-1788, and a report on the native law of Egbaland, 1906 (typescript).
Journal by Cyril Punch
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- Dates of Creation1785-1788, 1889, 1906
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- Language of MaterialEnglish.
- Physical Description1 volume, 1 file (104 ff., 48 ff.)
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Administrative / Biographical History
Cyril Punch, trader in West Africa.
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Collection level description created by Marion Lowman, Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House.
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Listed as no. 1389 in Manuscript Collections in Rhodes House Library Oxford, Accessions 1978-1994 (Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1996).
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