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Levinus Hulsius, Theil XIX., Brauit's Voyages to Gtiinea, Frankfurt, 

 1626. 



Hakluyfs Voyages, especially that portion dealing with the coast of 

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Description de VAfrique, Traduite du Flamand d'O. Dapper, Amsterdam, 

 1686. — The celebrated work by Dr. Olivier Dapper, a Dutch surgeon who 

 visited the Guinea coast in the latter half of the seventeenth century. 



Remarqiies sur les Cotes d'Afrique, et Notaminent siir la Cote d' Or, pour 

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Description of the Coast of Gui?iea, etc. — Written originally in Dutch 

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A Nezv Voyage to Guinea, etc., by William Smith, London, 1745. — 

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Essay on Colonisation, Particularly applied to the Western Coast of 

 Africa, etc., by C. B. Wadstrom, in two parts, London, 1795. — ^ copy of 

 this work in the possession of the Royal Geographical Society contains some 

 rather amusing marginal notes by " William Dickson, LL.D." According 

 to Dickson's story, this work was " Really compiled by W. Dickson, Mr. 

 Wadstrom having furnished only a small part of the material, namely, the 

 contents of his voyage to the coast of Africa. Commercial queries, and 

 certain Swedenborgian doctrines (namely, such as W. D. could not get 

 excluded), claim Mr. Wadstrom as their author, the language haying been 

 corrected where possible by W. D." Dickson, according to his own account, 

 was a sort of " ghost " who did literary work for Wadstrom, and whose 

 salary remained much in arrears and unpaid at the time of Wadstrom's 

 death. Dickson seems rather to have resented the mixture of commercial 

 enterprise with philanthropy which inspired the work of Wadstrom and his 

 supporters in England, and he pencils at the bottom of the title-page : 



For the pale fiend, cold-hearted Commerce, there 



Breathes his gold-gendered pestilence afar, 



And calls to share the prey his kindred demon War. — Soiithey. 



Wadstrom's book, though it contains many fantastic notions about 

 colonisation, nevertheless throws an interesting light on the condition of 

 West Africa at the end of the eighteenth century. 



A History of the Colo?ty of Sierra Leone, Western Africa, by Major 

 J. J. Crooks (formerly Colonial Secretary), London, 1903 (Simpkin, Marshall 

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A Historical Account of Discoveries arid Travels in Africa, by the late 

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