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
African Memoranda. 21 Proceedings of the Colonists from their leaving England to their arrival in the Bijuga* Channel on the Coast of Africa. The wind, which had changed to the westward as soon as we had got through the Needles, became fair the next morn, andAprii 13. . ” 14th. increasing gradually to a stiff breeze, enabled us to clear the Channel on the evening of the 15th, when Sophia Ford, a girl 15th. who had died the preceding day of a decline, was committed to the deep. The next day we lost sight of the Beggar’s Benison 16th. in the morn, and although in every consideration it was highly desirable that the ships should continue together during their passage, yet, from a very unaccountable inattention on board the Calypso, that ship parted from us in the following night. As the weather was very fine, and the Calypso had the advan tage of the Hankey in sailing, no blame whatever could be at tached to the master of the latter ship, the Calypso was lost sight of indeed almost in the wind’s eye, so that it was ever in her power to bear down upon, and close with the Hankey. The wind had hitherto been very moderate, but on the 19th 19th. it increased so much as to produce a sea which was very in- 20th. convenient to those unaccustomed to it, and the consequence * This is called in our charts the Bissao’s entrance, and the islands on the south side of it are called in them the Bissago’s islands; but adhering to the native pronunciation I call the latter the Bijuga islands, and the former the Bijuga channel.