DEDICATION. 
V 
fna?i as a being, who never hefitates to mur- 
der when plunder is in view. Still a juftift- 
able revenge yielded to the virtuous impulfe 
of compafiion, and our neceffides were gen- 
erally relieved, without even the prolpccl 
of a recompence. When throv/n, by the 
raging of the elements, on the fandy ihores 
of their country, w^e were all unarmed, not 
having faved from the wreck a fingle article-, 
either for our defence, clothing or fubfift- 
ence ; in this fituatiouy \wc were complete- 
ly at the mercy of the natives ; but inftead 
of remembering and revenging the wrongs 
they and their predeceffors had endured 
from the favage whites^ they made a fire to 
dry us ; they flaughtered a bullock, which 
they gave us for our fubfiftence ; they con- 
duded us to a fpring of the moft limpid and 
wholefome water, and when we were ena- 
bled to travel, furnilhed us v^dth diides 
through the deferts of their country. Such 
was the condud of a people, who have been 
defcribed as barbarians, poffeliing no other 
femblance of the human character than w^hat 
they derived from their formation. 
After having attempted thus to pay the 
debt of gratitude to my liberal benefactors 
on the continent of Africa, I fliall now en- 
deavour to draw your attention to thofe 
commercial benefits which I conceive may * 
be obtained by eftablifliing a colony from A- 
Eaerica, on that part of the coaft where the 
fliip I commanded was unfortunately wreck- 
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