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ARTICLE IV * African Memoranda : relative to an Attempt td establish A British Settlement on the Island of Billama * on the TVesU
trn Coast of Africa ^ in the Year 1792 . With a brief No * tice of the Neighbouring Tribes * , Soil ^ Product ions r 8 Cd and some Observations on the Facility of iolofiizlng that Part of Africa with a View tt > Cultivation , and the Intro * duction of hetters and Religion to its Inhabitants ^ but morS
particularly as the Means of gradually abolishing African Slavery . By Capti Philip Beaver \ 4 to * pps 5 OOi Baldwins , ih lls . 6 d . 1805 ,
[ Concluded frdih page 21 i . J Capt . B . ' s Journal j which next follows , was written ttn th ^ island of Bulama , and ciorltains a detailed account of the transactions there , from the sailing of the Calypso to the final
evacuation of the island * It is the journal of a chief surrounded by Cowardly and faithless slaves , of & hero struggling with adversity- It seems to have been Capt . B . ' s determinatiori td trams pie , according to Lord " Chatham ' s proud ma ^ im ^ upon
impossibilities ; . The ship H&txkey remiinfed off the isldnd till the expiration of her charter , which took place on the 1 lth of November ^ 1792 : she sailed for England on the 23 d of the same month * Many of the remaining colonists obtained pertfiissiott to return home iri her , for though they had prevailed upon thetrtselves to stay after the sailing of the Calypso , thfeir Courage failed them
when they were called upon to give up the last chatice of revisiting their native land . Only twenty-eight persons noW * remained at Bulama ! The departure of the Hankey seems to have depressed their spirits to a degree of melanfcholy from which they never recovered . Some of them seized
Opportunities of deserting to Sierra LeoiiCj or to the Portuguese settlements : many were B carried off by disease : so that in twelve ^ mouths ^ says Capt . . all the labourers were either dead ofgone , all the subscribers except one , and all the servants except two Blacks . By th < s importunities of thes £ surviving colonists , Capt * B * was * in reality , forced to evacuate the island , ^ vhich he did on the 29 th of November , 1793 , sailing for Sierra Leone , in a cutter which he had retained when the Hankev left
Bulama ; He and his companions arrived off Cape Sierra Leone , on Motiday 3 Dec * 23 % he hitnaeif , after spending two months ill this colony , returned to Europe in one of the Company ' s vessels * and arrived at Plymouth oh the nth o £ May , 1794 , after an absence of little more than two years , la his government of the colony , Capt , B . appears to have
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1806, page 321, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1725/page/41/
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