ABSTRACT

This chapter presents a letter of the author that specifically focusing the narrative of his narrative of two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone. It certainly focuses on the agreeable account of the safe arrival of the Lapwing at Penzance. When Falconbridge immediately went on shore to obtain sufferance to remain there a few days, the author arrived at Porta Praya in St Jago. Many of that countrymen reside there, who are Roman Catholics, and married to Portuguese ladies, with few exceptions. In a conversation with one of these ladies she said to him the women of their country must surely be very happy: they have to much more liberty than the women of any other country. The day after landing at Penzance, Falconbridge wrote to Mr. Granville Sharp, and by return of Post received his answer.