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
Projekt: Bestände der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
LDP: Bestände der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
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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. 15 a committee to correspond with your memorialists and to be 1792. entrusted with their concerns in England. Marchsi “ Your Memorialists humbly submit the above plan to your consideration, trusting that their conduct in carrying the same into execution, will merit the favour and protection of government; and at the same time pray, that as they are at a great daily expence with the ships, and the proper season for going on the coast of Africa is fast elapsing, you will be pleased to take this memorial into consideration.” On application we received permission to move the ships round to Portsmouth, which had been fixed upon as the place where we were all to rendezvous prim* to our final departure from England, and there wait the issue of our memorial. The Hankey therefore sailed from Gravesend on the evening April 4 of the 4th, and the following one anchored in the Downs, where having left a code of signals* to be delivered to the Calypso and Beggars Benison on their arrival there; we proceeded the next day on our way to Portsmouth. The I vo days employed in this passage were usefully g t h. devoted to the arranging of the births, sleeping, and mess places of the colonists on board the Hankey, which was no very pleasant, nor easy task, as is well known to those who have witnessed the uneasiness, and consequent dissatisfaction, of those who for the first time have found themselves crowded into the narrow space, necessarily resulting from many persons being confined within the limits of a single ship. However, * The direction of every thing on board the Hankey was committed to my care ; —on board the Calypso, to that of Lieutenant Hancome, and on board the Beggars Benison to Lieutenant Dobbin, both of the Royal Navy. 3