THE 
QUARTERLY JOURNAL, 
October, 1822. 
Art. I. Narrative of a Journey from Fzgypt to the Western 
Coast of Africa, by Mahomed Misrah. Communicated by 
an Officer serving in Sierra Leone. 
To the Epitor of the Quarterly Journal. 
Fort Thornton, Sierra Leone, April 8, 1821. 
Sir, 
Ar the request of several of my friends, of one in particular, 
a correspondent of yours, now on a visit to this colony, I am 
induced to send you an account of a journey performed by a 
Mahomedan Priest, over land from Egypt to the western 
shores of Africa; the details of which I have collected at 
several recent interviews. The facts were originally noted 
down for the purpose of gratifying my own curiosity, and of 
serving me as a guide in crossing Africa from west to east, in an 
expedition to explore the termination of the Niger, which I have 
in contemplation should a favourable opportunity offer. The 
eyes of Europe, generally, have been long turned towards Africa; 
but the attention of Great Britain, particularly, has been for the 
last thirty years directed, with a degree of praiseworthy anxiety, 
towards the prosecution of discovery in that vast continent, the 
melioration of the condition of her long-neglected inhabitants, 
their civilization, and the subsequent inculcation of morality 
and religion: to forward this grand design, worthy the charac~ 
ter of such a nation as England, expeditions on the most expen- 
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