“Gardalouppe” Guadeloupe

Title: “Gardalouppe” Guadeloupe
Date: ca. 1602
Author/Creator: Champlain, Samuel de (1567-1635)
Publisher: [unknown]
Size: 12.5 x 17.9 cm
Description: View of Guadeloupe. Decorative elements include compass rose, scale, ships, native Americans with spears or bows and arrows and Europeans carrying a basket and a sword. Also includes a pig or boar and trees.
Language of Item: French
Spatial Coverage: Caribbean Islands
Is Part Of: Brief discours des choses plus remarquables que Samuel Champlain de Brouage á reconneues aux Indes occidentales
Bibliographical Reference: Champlain, Samuel de (1567-1635). “Gardalouppe” [Guadeloupe], [ca. 1602], French, ms, 12.5 x 17.9 cm, John Carter Brown Library.
Notes: Guadeloupe was first settled by the French in 1635. The manuscript, attributed to Champlain, describes his voyage sailing with a Spanish fleet to the Caribbean in 1599 to 1600.
Notes: Wilmere, A. Narrative of a voyage to the West Indies, p. 6-7
Notes: illustration; verso leaf 6
Manuscript or Print: Manuscript
Original or Facsimile Edition: Original
Library of Congress Subject Heading: Caribbean Area - Maps
Library of Congress Subject Heading: First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners
Keywords or Tags: Artifacts, industry, and human activities Indigenous peoples
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Highlight: In the early seventeenth century, Champlain was on his way to New France (Canada) and, like many other Europeans, took the southerly oceanic route and spent time touring the Caribbean. On Guadeloupe he depicted native Americans (a group of seven) without clothes, but adorned with conical pointed hats. and armed with spears and bows and arrows. Two Europeans are well clothed and sport sword and staff; a third is less well dressed and carries a basket, presumably to suggest commercial along with military intent. A pig or boar seems to have the run of the countryside; buccaneers exploited their availability. Despite his short stay on Guadeloupe, Champlain drew a recognizable map of the island