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Francis Moore

An 18th-century British travel writer, he is best known for a detailed account of the Gambia River region that drew on years spent there with the Royal African Company. His work survives as an important early English record of West African life before later colonial change.

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Scriptural and Hieroglyphic Observations which were foretold in the years of 1750 & 1792 To which is added a singular account of the emigration of the Jews in 1812

Scriptural and Hieroglyphic Observations which were foretold in the years of 1750 & 1792 To which is added a singular account of the emigration of the Jews in 1812

by Francis Moore

About the author

Little is known for certain about his early life, but sources describe him as being born in Worcester, England and baptized in 1708. He later worked for the Royal African Company, serving in the Gambia from 1730 to 1735 as a clerk and then factor.

That experience shaped his best-known book, Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa (1738). The journal-based work describes communities, trade, customs, and daily life along the River Gambia, and it has been noted by major library and reference sources as an important record of precolonial Gambia.

Modern readers may also want the fuller context: Moore's career was tied to a company deeply involved in the Atlantic slave trade. Even so, his writing has remained historically significant because it preserves rare firsthand observations of West Africa in the early 18th century.