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
28 African Memoranda. > nor would let me take off a pilot to bring the ship to a secure Mayo, anchorage in this island. We had by this time approached within a few yards of the city gate, when this priest advised me to stop till the governor had been apprized of my landing. I was going on, intending to go directly to the governor, but he entreated me to stop, ob serving that if 1 entered the city I should be put in prison, and not suffered to return to night. Unwilling to be a night from the ship, as those on board would be anxious about the safety of the boat, and unable to pursue their voyage if the wind should become fair without it, I took this good priest’s advice, and sat down upon a stone seat by the road ; but that the go vernor might be apprized as early as possible of my being there, I gave a drummer, who was among the crowd, an English half crown to go into the city, and tell the officei' of the guard that there was an Englishman in waiting outside of the gate who wanted permission to see the governor. Having waited more than an hour, and no notice whatever having been taken of my message, I determined to go into the city myself, as the evening was fast approaching, and the ship a considerable distance at sea; my friend the priest advised me not to attempt it; he said he could have no motive whatever in endeavouring to dissuade me from it but my own convenience, for that I should certainly be put in prison if I entered the city gate. No good could possibly accrue from my remaining where I was ; whatever therefore might be the consequence I determined on entering the city, and had just got to the gate when a cor poral and four privates came out; and, without saying one word