Map of the coast from the Approuague to the Calçoene River

Title Leupe: Kaart van Cayenne, van Raper Waca tot Rio Cassaporu.

In the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War (1780-1784), France was an ally of the Republic, and, as a far stronger naval and colonial power in this period, helped prevent the loss of Dutch colonies worldwide. From Surinam, the military engineer Johann Friedrich Ferdinand Wollant was sent to the neighbouring French colony of Cayenne to confer with the authorities there about reciprocal military aid (or rather, French assistance to the Dutch colonies) and the supply of French weapons, ammunition and food. During this mission, which lasted until the end of January 1782, Wollant also collected data for a number of maps and project plans.

This is probably a draft by Wollant showing the coast from the Approuague to the Calçoene River. Note that the Leupe inventory wrongly assigns this map to Jefferys and Mareechais; this possibly involves a copying error.

Scale-bar of 10 German miles = 65 ‘strepen’.