A Hieroglyphic Journal of a Voyage to the Caribbean
The Traveller’s Guide to Madeira and the West Indies is an unusual book that uses hieroglyphics plates to tell the story of an 1814 trade voyage. Plate 4 ( below), displays the dates March 28th to April 15th in a calendar-like grid, for each day either a dot, to connote nothing of importance happened, or a little illustration summing up that day’s events
Housed at: Internet Archive | From: the British Library
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