Observations Upon The Windward Coast Of Africa

ives at Madeira.-Observations on that Island.-Prosecution

ounger) joined us; we dined together, and separated with mutual kind wishes. The next morning Mr.

sit the shores. I had so recently left; and on the 22d of September sailed, in the ship Andersons, from St. Helen's, unde

adeira, on Saturday the lath of October,

antations of vines, and various kinds of herbage, with the exception of partial spots burnt up by the heat of the sun in the dry season, displays a singular

n the evening; and upon being made known to the house of Messrs. Murdoch,

nto the breakfast parlour by Mr. Wardrope, one of the acting partners, to h

chapel, which so far from being a house of devotion, presented to our con

built, and the streets remarkably narrow and ill paved. The churches are decorated with ornaments, and pictures of images and saints, most wretchedly executed: I understand, however, that a much better taste is displayed in the convent

uts, and apples, flourish in the hills, almost spontaneously, and guanas, mangoes, and bananas, in wild exuberance. At the country residence of James Gordon, Esq. where we dined, and met with the most distinguished hospitality, I saw a most surprising instance of rapid growth; a shoot of the

characteristic is idleness, neglect its culture, and thereby subject themselves to the necessity of relying

ssional returns, and, as he was himself a bishop, it may be inferred that the n

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is perfectly arbitrary; Funchal is his residence; he has a council under him consisting of 24 members, whose president is the second judge for the

from the grape in a wooden vessel, proportioned in size to the quantity they intend to make. The wine-pressers take off their jackets and stockings, get into the vessel, and with their elbows and feet press as much of the juice as is prac

a palanquin for the former, and for the latter a hollow log of wood, drawn by oxen, upon which the wine

000l. annually, clear of all expenses; but the balance of trade

rs, converted by their laws, into milreas of 5s. 6d. pistare

yment in dollars, which they value at a milrea. Sometimes they may, from part

nder the protection of the Favorite, the Arab continuing at her moorings. Passing between the grand Canary and close in with Teneriffe, we arrived safe at the island of Goree, on the 5th of November, without our commodore, under convoy of the

eriod, and from a general intercourse with an extended circle of chiefs, natives, and traders, I have been enabled to decide upon the si

ct and management of the Sierra Leone company, I first conceived the system that I shall hereafter delineat

IVER SIERRA LEONE. The Property of Jo

ration by natural commerce, or to the establishment of civilization. The African's barbarity must be first here assailed, and the infinite resources upon the coasts and maritime rivers must be developed to his view, to pre-dispose him to refine his condition, and adopt the civilized habits of life; nor is there any site which I have met with upon the Win