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
APP. NO. 8.] African Memoranda. 469 No. 8. A list of goods given to Niobana and Matchore for the purchase of the Island of Bulama, &c. Bar*. Prime Cott. io Danish guns, 6o £ -j 15 10 30 Flasks of powder, 60 410 o 1 Eighteen gallon cask of brandy .....36 2 5 9 20 Flasks of brandy 20 1 5 6 30 lbs. of tobacco 15 . o 15 o 15 Knives .. 3 o 1 6 ^16 13 7 The prime cost of the following articles cannot be exactly ascertained, not having the invoices. 2 Fathoms of scarlet cloth 16 » ditto, of blue ditto 6 Common hats 6 3 Large pewter basins 3 3 Smaller ditto 2 2 Bunches of Burdoe beads . 2 2 ditto of Harlequin ditto .. 2 1 ditto of Muffaties ditto 1 The following articles were procured from Mr. Bootle. 5 Handkerchefs 5 8 Cutlasses 8 8 Iron bars •8 1 Barrel of powder 50. 300 3 15 6 is 1 Cm?