The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies

TITLE PAGE Letters to a Friend in Sweden, Including a Historical and Geographical Description of the Sierra Leone Colony in Africa, together with an Account of the Formation of the Sierra Leone Company and the Formation of the Colony, with Comments on the Climate, Produce &c and on the Character, Population, Religion, Customs and Activities of the Indigenous Inhabitants, the Colony's Growth and it. [...] The plantation-owners are informed about the date for the sale of the newly-arrived consignment of slaves and come to the market-place to select their slaves and place their bids. [...] A committee was sent to Africa, to decide on an appropriate site for the settlement and to negotiate with the native Africans.15 At the same time, a delegation from North America arrived, to present for the British government the predicament and the complaints of their black compatriots who had fought on the British side in the American independence war, when the British government had recruited a. [...] Two of these years I spent in the Americas and the West Indies, one-and-a-half in the Mediterranean, from the straights of Gibraltar to the east, and four years in the Dutch East Indies; I am accustomed to the climate everywhere. [...] It is on a peninsular, between the Sierra Leone River and the Sherbro River, at 8º 30' latitude North and 13º 43' longitude West, (14º 30' West with the magnetic variation).25 On the western side of the settlement, the ocean coast extends towards the north; this forms a harbour, wherein a hundred ships could safely lie, sheltered from the tornadoes by the mountains rising to the south-east.