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
CONTENTS. Page Preface * Introduction ... ... i* PART I. CHAPTER I. Page Proceedings of the Bulama Society in England i CHAPTER II. Proceedings of the Colonists from their leaving England to their arrival in the Bijuga Channel, on the Coast of Africa. 21 CHAPTER III. Summary of the Calypso’s proceedings from the time of her separation to her rejoining the Hankey 45 CHAPTER IV. Proceedings from the rejunction of the ships to the abandonment of the island of Bulama by the major part of the Colonists, in the Ship Calypso • 54 PART II CHAPTER V. Lieutenant Beaver’s Journal on the island of Bulama. 3