There is so much great source material in here for any historian (or pseudo-historian like myself). There are many details about what it was like traversing the Atlantic and variety of sea life encountered sharks, whales, dolphins, turtles, flying fish.

Then there is life in Barbados which includes all manner of things: houses, water sources, cost of plantations, domesticated animals, meats, drinks, breads (even how to make cassava bread), butter, climate, masters/servants/slaves, plants, fish, sugar cane process, metals. There are just so many things it brings into consideration -- much of would apply to all English Colonies at the time.

The descriptions are very well done and the language is surprising readable for modern times. It gives a real notion of what people in England would have known about and what would be novel. For instance the Hummingbird is described as something novel, while "Bonanoes" and "Plantines" need no description (likely well known in England by this time).

This version is by far the most readible I could find on the archive.org site.

Ligon's first-hand account of the efforts made to measure and rationalize the newly domesticated island of "Barbadoes" represents an invaluable testimony for contemporary scholars. It reveals the coloniality of power at work in Caribbean modernity.