with a brief notice of the neighbouring tribes, soil, productions, &c. and some observations on the facility of Colonizing that part of Africa, with a View to Cultivation; and the introduction of letters and religion to its inhabitants: but more particularly as the means of gradually abolishing African Slavery relative to an attempt to establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the year 1792
with a brief notice of the neighbouring tribes, soil, productions, &c. and some observations on the facility of Colonizing that part of Africa, with a View to Cultivation; and the introduction of letters and religion to its inhabitants: but more particularly as the means of gradually abolishing African Slavery relative to an attempt to establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the year 1792
CHAPTER V. «■ A JOURNAL WRITTEN ON THE ISLAND OF BULAMA: FROM THE SAILING OF THE CALYPSO, TO THE FINAL EVACUATION OF THAT ISLAND. BY LIEUTENANT PHILIP BEAVER, OF HIS MAJESTY'S ROYAL NARY. La condition de ceux qui gouvernent, n’est pas autre que celle de ce Cacique a qui 1’on • demandait s’il avait des esclaves, et qui repondit: Des esc laves, je n'en connais qu’un dans ma cuntrce, et cet esclave Id, c'est moi. Raynal Hist. Phil, et Pol. Prefixed to Babere’s “ Pensce du Gouvernement, &c.”