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 XI. Advantageous position of the Country sketched in Chapter VIII for the purposes of Cultivation and Commerce — its Colonization proposed — Commodities intended to be there produced ...
2<)() African Memoranda. dry weather may be certainly reckoned upon, if they arrive at the proper time; in which they may clear their grounds for cultivation ; and cotton, as the least difficult and least expen sive, and making the best return, all things considered, I should recommend to be first cultivated. During the dry season the colonists would also erect their houses and make a public road &c.; while the governor should be making purchases of land on the continent and among the Bijuga islands for future settlers; and in doing this he would meet with no great difficulty, as all the ground uncultivated by them is of no use, any further than as affording them the means of the chace. And indeed they are ever anxious to have white people settled in their neighbour hood, as when that is the case they always expect a constant supply of European goods. In the mean time, while the cot ton is growing, some small returns might be made to the mother country in the native produce enumerated in page 381. Having, in the first year, made two establishments on the island of Bulama, one at the east, and the other at the west, end of it; the former of which is to be considered the capital of the colony ; I should the next year form one on the Biafara shore opposite to it; and another just to the westward of that branch of the Grande which runs up to Ghinala. These would be both on land already purchased of the natives ; but, if the government at Bulama has been at all active, other territo ries will have been purchased in the first year; in which case I should form a third establishment at Bulola,* and a fourth in * Although Bulola is without the boundary line of the territory proposed to be colonized, being on the Naloo peninsula on the south side of the Grande, yet, from the character of its inhabitants, and their desire to have us established among them, I should there form a settlement, probably it might be thought wise to extend the