Richard Jobson (explorer)

Richard Jobson was an English explorer of the 17th century.

Jobson traveled and explored from 1620 to 1621 the West African river Gambia. In January 1621 he reached the Barrakunda Falls, about 500 kilometers from its mouth in the Atlantic Ocean. A month later, he reached further east the kingdom of Tenda. In May he left the Gambia, but was in 1624 commissioned another expedition on the river, but was not successful.

About the first trip, he wrote the book The Golden Trade. In this work, there is also the first description of the game Mancala by a European. Later he published the book The Discovery of the Country of King Solomon.