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
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Chapter I. Proceedings of the Committee of a Society for establishing a Colony on the Western Coast of Africa, from the Period of its Institution, till the Departure of the Colonists from England
AFRICAN MEMORANDA. ■ CHAPTER I. ' .*■ . . • r ■ ■ , • Proceedings of the Committee of a Society for establishing a Colony on the Western Coast of Africa, from the Period of its Institution, till the Departure of the Colonists from England. IN consequence of the determination of Messrs. Dalrymple 1791. and Beaver, to attempt a settlement on the island of Bulama, they had made known their intentions on that subject to some of their military friends, who eagerly joined in their views, and in a few days the following gentlemen Nov. 2. < • ■ - ■ ■ ■ . ... . ■ . , Messrs. Henry Hew Dalrymple,* John Young,+ Sir Wm. Halton, Bart.* John, King, § Robert Dobbin,^ Philip Beater, * Late an officer in some regiment stationed at Goree. + Late an Officer in the 42d regiment. | Late a Captain in the Militia. § A Lieutenant of Marines. 1 Lieutenants in the R. Navy.