George Glas
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George Glas
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George Glas was a Scottish seaman and merchant adventurer in West Africa. The son of John Glas, the divine, Glas was born at Dundee in 1725, and is said to have been brought up as a surgeon. He obtained command of a ship which traded between Brazil, the northwest coasts of Africa and the Canary Islands. During his voyages he discovered on the Western Sahara seaboard a river navigable for some distance inland, and here he proposed to found a trading station. The exact spot is not known with certa
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2005-10-20T00:11:11Z
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2024-09-05T23:58:12Z
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