Pieter de Marees [SEP] native language
Pieter de Marees
Pieter de Marees was a Dutch trader and explorer who is notable for writing an extensive report about his trip to the Gold Coast in 1602. This "Beschrijvinghe ende historische verhael van het Gout Koninckrijck van Gunea anders de Gout-custe de Mina genaemt, liggende in het deel van Africa" was the first thorough description of this part of Africa in the Dutch language, and greatly increased interest in this region in the Dutch Republic. It was translated into German, English, and Latin, and remained the
most important document on the Gold Coast until it was surpassed by Willem Bosman's "Nauwkeurige beschrijving van de Guinese Goud- Tand- en Slavekust" (1703).
References.
- P.D.M. [Pieter de Marees]: Beschrijvinghe ende historische verhael vant gout koninckrijck van Guinea, Michiel Colijn: Amsterdam 1617 (original edition published by Cornelis Claesz, Amsterdam 1602) 
- Pieter de Marees: Beschryvinge ende Historische Verhael van het Gout Koninckrijck van Gunea (1602), hg. v. Samuel Pierre L’Honoré Naber (Werken uitgegeven door de