| Description | The journal includes details about the islands in the Caribbean, and zoological, botanical and ethnographic details of the colony of Caledonia. Two attempts were made to settle the area by Scottish settlers in 1698 and 1699. Both failed due to starvation and disease.
Subject: Exploration / Colonisation
Read to the Royal Society on 12 July 1699
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'Part of a journal kept from Scotland to New Caledonia in Darien, with a short account of that country' |