This chapter explores the ways in which African islands and interiors sometimes stand in for each other and sometimes compete as radical Utopian sites in the revolutionary writings of Charles Berns Wadstrom and his collaborator, the eccentric alchemist Augustus Mordenskjold. These men never realised their dream of founding what they called a 'free community' in Africa, but the colony which was founded in 1791 on Bulama, 200 miles north of Sierra Leone in the Bissagos Archipelago, came close to answering their blueprint for a new society. Philip Beaver's 'little paradise' of Bulama came to be vilified as a 'pestilential' island. The alleged source of a deadly disease which was carried across the Atlantic to Grenada by the Hanker, one of the Bulam Association's ships. From Grenada the disease spread to other islands, before travelling on to Philadelphia, where 5,000 people fell victim to it.