FREE-TOWN. 
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was the before-named Mahomed Lamina, the only one 
who had visited Timbaktuh. He was far superior to 
all the others in intelligence, having had a tolerable 
Mussulman education. He told us, that he had kept a 
journal in Arabic, of his former travels; but un- 
fortunately, it was in the possession of his brother, who 
was away from Sierra Leone. 
Besides these, fourteen other liberated Africans — some 
of whom had their wives and children, were engaged by 
Mr. Carr, the superintendent of the Model Farm, as 
labourers, &c., for that establishment. These were sent 
on board a small brigantine, which had been purchased 
to serve as a tender, and the command given to 
Lieutenant Harston, with a party of men from the 
‘ Albert.’ Having formerly been a condemned slaver, 
it required some time to clean her out and fit her for the 
reception of the people. 
Free-town, the principal settlement in the colony of 
Sierra Leone, is sufficiently elevated above the sea to 
secure it from the evils of swamps and stagnant water 
in its immediate neighbourhood ; but the long, low, flat 
land of the opposite, BuUarn-shore, frequently sends over 
its noxious exhalations, to the detriment of health. 
The town is clean, and well laid out ; the principal 
streets being very broad and strait, especially that part 
inhabited by Europeans and the more important of the 
native traders, whose houses are generally detached, 
and surrounded by numerous trees. 
