CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 
To the Honourable John AdamSj President of the Con- 
tinental Congress of the United States of America. 
" SIR, 
" IF this Narrative be transmitted across 
the Atlantic, and should find its way to 
your hand, receive it as the voluntary 
homage of a native of America, who from 
his earliest life hath been taught to vene- 
rate and admire your virtues and your ta- 
lents. A work like the present, which has 
for its object the diffusion of science, the 
promotion of civilization throughout the 
unexplored and vast regions of Africa, and 
the establishment of colonial settlements 
in that fertile but neglected quarter of the 
earth, cannot be addressed to any indi- 
vidual with more propriety than to you. 
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