SUPPLEMENTARY NUMBER 



TO THE FIFTY-FIFTH VOLUME of the 



MONTHLY MAGAZINE. 



No. 384.] 



JULY 31, 1823. 



[Price 2s. 



Selections from the Chief Publications of the Half- Year. 



REMARKS 



ON THE COUNTRY EXTENDING FROM 



CAPE PALMAS 



TO 



THE RIVER CONGO, 



Including Observations on tlie Manners and 

 Customs of the Inhabitants. 



WITH AN APPENDIX, 

 Containing an Account of the European Trade 

 uitk the IVest Coast of Africa. 



BY CAPT. JOHN ADAMS, 



Octavo. 78, 6d. 



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 to give that variety of correct informa- 

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 of his work. Nor is it valuable only in 

 a literary and geographical sense, for it 

 contains, in the Appendix, a body of 

 Commercial information above all price 

 in its utility to the merchant-adven- 

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PROPOSED NEW COLONY. 



IN the selection of a place for coloni- 

 zation ill Africa, the members com- 

 l)osiii<f the African Institution, it is too 

 well known, have been peculiarly nn- 

 forlunalc. The insalubrity of the air of 

 Sierra Leone is almost become prover- 

 bial, and those going there are consi- 

 dered by many as embarking for the 

 next world ; it is then fore much to be 

 uppiehcnded, that one of the benevolent 

 purposes for which that settlenienl was 

 originally founded, will be liustratcd. 

 Hence, in the course of these remarks, 

 I have endeavoured to point out a 

 place (Malemba, .0° 24' S. 12" 20' E.) 

 suitable lor cslablisbiiig a colony of the 

 negroes captured on board of contra- 

 band slav(vships. In fact, there is nut 

 along the whole line of coast, extending 

 Ironi Cape I'almas, where tluse iemarks 

 commence, to llic liver Congo, cm- 

 MoNTHLY Mao. No. 384. 



bracing an extent of five hundred 

 leagues, one place that has come under 

 my observation so peculiarly well 

 adapted for that purpose, as the one to 

 which I allude. 



CAPE LAHOO. 



The town of Cape Lahoo (5** N. and 

 E.) is built on a narrow peninsula of 

 sand, formed by the sea and river, and 

 may consist of 150 houses, containing a 

 population of seven or eight hundred 

 souls. The Dutch, at a former period, 

 carried on here a considerable trade in 

 slaves and ivory, particularly in the 

 latter, in which article the Lahoo peo- 

 ple have always dealt largely. 



As the trade with Europeans is 

 carried on on-board their Tcssels, but 

 few of them ever go on shore, and I was 

 in consequence anxious to pay the town 

 a visit. On making my intention 

 known to the natives, they .seemed much 

 gratified, and placed me in one of their 

 best canoes for that purpose; from wliieli 

 we landed, w ithout being much wet, the 

 surf on the shore being moderate. I was 

 taken to the chief's house, who treated 

 me with much attention, kindness, and 

 hospitality; but the beautiful tropical 

 picture w hieh the river at this time pre- 

 sented, would have amply repaid me for 

 my trouble, if I had had no other cause 

 for being pleased with my journey. 

 This little river, after bending its course 

 from the north to the back of the town, 

 runs to the eastward a few hundred 

 yards, parallel to the sea-shorc, and then 

 joins the sea. Its mouth is narrow, and 

 choked with bard sand, on which the sea 

 breaks with great violence, so as to ren- 

 der it very <langcroiis, cither for boats or 

 canoes to ap|)roach its entrance. It was 

 now the dry season, its stream almost 

 pellucid, and its surface so tranquil, that 

 the graceful palms which adorn its banks 

 were rellectcd from its surface as from a 

 mirror ; and a few canoes, in which 

 people were employed fishing, gave ani- 

 mation to the scene. The town formed 

 the foreground, and a cluster of large 

 ceiba and other trees, the screen to this 

 iutcrcstiiig tropical picture. A bonnd- 

 4 E least 



