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Richard Jobson
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– 1623
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Who was Richard Jobson?
Richard Jobson was an English explorer. His 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.
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