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LIGON, Richard, English traveller. He was a royalist, lost his fortune in the troubles of 1647, and went in that year to Barbadoes, where he bought a house and land. He was subsequently attacked by a fever, and after narrowly escaping death returned to England in 1650. Before his departure from England he had been intimate with Abraham Duppa, bishop of Salisbury, and on his return the prelate was so much impressed with Ligon's account, of Barbadoes that he advised him to publish a narrative of his adventures. The author was soon afterward cast into prison by his creditors, and whether he died there or was released by his friends is uncertain. His work; a folio, with maps and illustrations, is entitled "A True and Exact History of Barbadoes" (London, 1650). From this work Steele drew the facts for his tale of "Inkle and Yarico" in the "Spectator." Yarieo was one of Ligon's Indian slaves. The Abbe Raynal has also drawn largely on the same author in his "Histoire philosophique des Indes," and the Englishman, Inkle, and his victim, Yarico, have been the subjects of several romances.
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