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What would the worst of English colonies say to a mortality of 350 per thousand per annum? Of course we are told that it is exceptional, and the case of the insurance societies is quoted. But they forget to tell us the reason. A mail steamer now calls at Freetown once a week, and the invalid is sent home by the first opportunity.
On the 22nd March, 1827, Caillié left Freetown for Kakondy, a village on the Rio Nuñez, where he employed his leisure in collecting information respecting the Landamas and the Nalous, both subject to the Foulahs of Fouta Djallon, but not Mohammedans, and, as a necessary result, both much given to spirituous liquors.
"Oh, not more than a hundred miles," answered Hemming. "That is nothing. The sea-breeze would drive us in there in the course of the day." He did not say this because he thought it; he wanted to keep up the spirits of the people under his charge. Nor did he remind them that they were five or six hundred miles from Freetown, Sierra Leone, and a very considerable distance from Manovia in Liberia.
Freetown has the usual strong combination smell of nigger, cinnamon, and decaying vegetation, in an atmosphere of heavy steam, that characterizes all tropical towns inhabited by our "black brother." We were told that this place had but a few years ago the pleasant subtitle of "The White Man's Grave."
This custom, although by no means familiar to Englishmen, is very generally practised in the north of England. It is probably a relique of ancient manners. I left Freetown, about five in the afternoon, with Mr. McCormack to visit his timber establishment at the island of Tombo, a distance of twenty miles up the river, which we made, with a slight breeze, in about three hours.
They partly live on the wild fruits of the country, and occasionally get something at the villages through which they pass; generally walking between the hours of six and ten in the morning, and two and six in the afternoon each day. They also apply to the merchants in Freetown, for accommodations during their stay, which is from ten days to a month.
Auction at Sierra Leone Timber Establishments in the River Tombo, Bance and Tasso Islands Explosion of a Vessel at Sea Liberated Africans Black Ostlers Horses Imported Slave Vessel Colonial Steam Vessel Road and Street Repairs Continued Rains Suggestion for preserving the Health of European Seamen General Views of the Colony Population Parishes Supply of Provisions Description of Freetown Curious Letter from Black Labourers Original Settlers Present Inhabitants Trade with the Interior Strange Customs of Native Merchants Anecdote of Sailors Injurious Example of the Royal African Corps Vaccination of Natives Medical Opinion Departure from Sierra Leone
Both land and island twice a day. The whole site of Sa Leone is quasi-insular. Bunce or Bunch River to the north, and Calamart or Calmont, usually called Campbell's Creek, from the south, are said to meet at times behind the mountain-mass; and at all seasons a portage of a mile enables canoes to paddle round the hill-curtain behind Freetown.
From the observations I made while I remained at Freetown, it occurred to me that a plan might be adopted, with good effect, for improving the management of the timber trade. I should recommend that an old ship be moored in the river, a little above Freetown, and housed over for the purpose of receiving the crews of such vessels as go up the river to take in their cargoes.
The few persons who remained alive made their way back to Sierra Leone. Thus the first expedition failed. One year later, in March, 1821, a new company of twenty-one emigrants, in charge of J.B. Winn and Ephraim Bacon, arrived at Freetown in the brig Nautilus.
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