The French at Kilwa Island : an episode in eighteenth-century East African history / [by] G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville.

Translations of documents from the National Archives of France and the Rhodes House Library at Oxford University, concerning the activities of a French shipowner, Monsieur Morice, in his attempt to establish a slave trading center at Kilwa, between 1776 and 1779.

Bibliography : p. [228]-232.

INTRODUCTION : 1. The Sources - 2. Monsieur Morice and his Project - 3. The Sultans of Kilwa, circa 1700 to circa 1856 - 4. The Kingdom of Kilwa in the Eighteenth Century -- THE DOCUMENTS : 1. Title Page of the Morice documents in the Archives de France - 2. Additional Title Page of the Morice documents in the Archives de France - 3. Morice to the Minister of the Navy, Ile de France, 3 March 1776 - 4. Ternay and Maillart to the Minister of the Navy, Ile de France, 6 April 1776 - 5. Ternay to the Minister of the Navy, Ile de France, 8 April 1776 - 6. French and Arabic versions of Morice's treaty with the Sultan of Kilwa, 14 September 1776 - 7. Morice to J.-F. C. de Cossigny, Kilwa, 4 November 1776 - 8. Entry by Naval Ministry registry clerk of the arrival of numbers 4, 5 and 3 - 9. Morice to Monsieur Bernier, Cape of Good Hope, 25 March 1777 - 10. Morice to Monsieur Foucaud fils, Cape of Good Hope, 26 March 1777 - 11. Morice to the Minister of the Navy, Cape of Good Hope, 2 April 1777 - 12. Memoir concerning the East Coast of Africa, 15 June 1777 and 26 September 1777 - 13. Questions asked of Monsieur Morice about the East Coast of Africa, undated - 14. New questions asked of Monsieur Morice concerning the East Coast of Africa, undated - 15. New reflections or questions concerning the East African coast, presented to Monsieur Morice, undated - 16. Replies by Monsieur Morice, questions by Monsieur de Cossigny, undated - 17. Questions by Monsieur Morice, replies by Monsieur de Cossigny, undated - 18. Answer by Monsieur Morice to the preceding, undated - 19. Reply by Monsieur de Cossigny, 24 June 1777 - 20. List of Trade Goods from Surat needed for a Voyage to Kilwa, undated - 21. Observations on the list of Trade Goods from another point of view, undated - 22. 26 June 1777 - 23. 29 June 1777 : Questions by Monsieur de Cossigny, replies by Monsieur Morice - 24. 30 June 1777 - 25. 3 July 1777 : Questions, observations and replies - 26. 4 July 1777 : Questions and observations ; replies by Monsieur Morice - 27. Plan of Operations for the Trade of the Coast of East Africa, undated - 28. Morice to Monsieur Bernier, Ile de France, 19 July 1777 - 29. Plan for a Trading Centre on the East Coast of Africa, Ile de France, 24 September 1777 - 30. Morice to the Minister of the Navy, Ile de France, 25 September 1777 - 31. Morice to the Minister of the Navy, Ile de France, 25 September 1777 - 32. Inventory of items that accompany the joint letter no. 91 from Monsieur le Chevalier de la Brillane and Maillart, Governor and Intendant of the Iles de France and Bourbon, no date, but c. 26 September 1777 - 33. No title or address, but evidently the short memoir referred to in Morice to the Minister of the Navy of 10 October 1777 - 34. Morice to the Minister of the Navy, Ile de France, 10 October 1777 - 35. La Brillane and Foucault to the Minister of the Navy, Ile de France, 4 December 1777, enclosing numbers 33 and 34 - 36. J.-B.-N.-D. d'Après de Mannevillette to the Minister of the Navy, 8 July 1778 ; extract by ministry clerk - 37. Morice to the Minister of the Navy, Ile de France, 6 January 1779 - 38. Minister of the Navy to La Brillane and Foucault, Versailles, 7 February 1779 - 39. Colonies : summary of documents concerning proposals made by Joseph Crassons de Medeuil c. February 1785, followed by observations -- Appendix I. Documents concerning Mombasa : i. Ternay to the Minister of the Navy, Ile de France, 13 February 1773 - ii. Copy of a letter from Prince Kombo to Monsieur le Chevalier de Ternay, translated from the Portuguese, undated - iii. Ternay to the Minister of the Navy, Ile de France, 28 October 1773 - iv. Minister of the Navy to Ternay, Versailles, 23 April 1775 -- Appendix II. List of Titles comprised in the de Curt Manuscript -- MAPS : 1. The Indian Ocean-showing the principal places mentioned in the text - 2. Carte réduite de la Côte d’Afrique (NAF 88) - 3. Isle de Zemzibare (NAF 89) - 4. Plan de l'Ise [sic] et du Port de Quiloa et des Iles adjacentes (NÄF 95–96).