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
95 y Grand Total 84. Colonists 1792. Saturday, July 21-. African Memoranda. Sick list of ship’s crew 4. Men. Worn. Chil. 7 Well 44 .. 11 .. 24 —Total W. 79 LSick 3.. 1. 1 S. 5 At day-light buried Mr. Hancorne ;—heavy rains prevented Sunday,, my reading prayers ; wind southerly. 2 ' d " After dinner sent a party of observation (three subscribers whose wish it was to go) into the country. They returned a little before dark, frightened, almost to death, by a buffaloe! and brought with them seven young wild ducks, which they had taken out of a nest on the top of a very high Pullam, or cotton tree. They had met with nothing worthy of notice ; unless it be a savannah, of which they speak highly ; and which, they suppose, contains about 100 acres. From their account of their journey, I conclude it must bear about W. by N. of the garden, distant two miles. Sick list—ship’s crew 4. Men. Worn. Chil. Colonists Well 43 .. 8 .. 25 —Total W. 761 Sick 4 .. 4 .. 0 S. 8J Grand Total 84. One party employed on shore extending the garden, another cutting scantling for the house, and a third party making a stye to receive our pigs. About noon I was surprized to see a schooner coine round the S.W. point, and haul in for the harbour, but more so at her colours, which were those of the Isle of Man. I immediately went on board and found that it was called the Fisher, and be longed to a slave ship of that name, now lying in the Rio Nunez; that it was under the direction of a Mr. Bootle, a mulattoe man, who had formerly (as servant to a Mr. Ormond, a great English slave trader in the RioPungos,) kept a factory at Bulola,