ABSTRACT

This chapter presents a letter written by the author about the narrative of two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone. The author occasionally visits to Bance Island, unattended by any important occurrence worth troubling them with, and a continual concourse of strangers, making their African compliments, engrossed two days interval between. Mr. Falconbridge has been refused the Sierra Leona Packet to go in quest of cattle, and otherwise prosecute the duties of his office as commercial agent. He employed in attending the sick, particularly those of scrophulous habits, while the military gentleman, who has acquired by experience some medical knowledge, attends those afflicted with fevers, &c.