ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a letter written by the author about two voyages to the River Sierra Leone. Mr. Falconbridge is employed by the St. Georges Bay Company to carry out some relief for a number of unfortunate people, both blacks and whites, whom Government sent to the river Sierra Leone, a few years since, and who in consequence of having had some dispute with the natives, are scattered through the country, and are just now as have been told, in the most deplorable condition. He is likewise to make some arrangements for collecting those poor creatures again, and forming a settlement which the company has in contemplation to establish, not only to serve them, but to be generally useful to the natives. The company has either sent, or is to send out a small cutter called the Lapwing, to meet Mr. Falconbridge, on the coast, carries the stores for relieving the people, &c.
