Richard Jobson (explorer)

For other people with the same name, see Richard Jobson (disambiguation).

Richard Jobson was a seventeenth-century English explorer.

Jobson's most noted work is The Golden Trade in which he describes his voyages to Ethiopia and the Gambia River during 1620–1621. It is also the earliest known European work to mention the game of Mancala.

External links

Online version of Jobson's The Golden Trade

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