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Life, Scenery and Customs in Sierra Leone and the Gambia, Volume I This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. MEMOIRS OF THE HOUSE OE ORLEANS. By W. Cooke Taylor, LL.D. 3 vols., 8vo., 42s. THE COURT AND REIGN OP FRANCIS THE FIRST, KING OF FRANCE, By Miss Pardoe. 2 vols., 8vo., 36s. LIFE OF H.R.H. EDWARD, DUKE OF KENT. By the Rev. Erskine Neale, M.A. 1 vol., 8vo., 14s. DOCTOR JOHNSON: HIS RELIGIOUS LIFE AND HIS DEATH. By the Author of -' Dr. Hookwell. ' 1 vol., post 8vo., 12s. EARTH AND MAN: LECTURES ON COMPARATIVE PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. By Arnold Guvot. 1 vol , post 8vo., 5s. THE PHANTOM WORLD; or, the Philosophy of Spirits, Appari tions, &c. By Augustine Calmet. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by the Itev. Henry Christmas, M.A., F.R.S. 2 vols., post 8vo., 21s. LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF ADMIRAL SIR WM. 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MEMOIRS OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON ; to which are now added a History of the Hundred Days, of the Battleof Waterloo, and of Napoleon's Exile and Death at St. Helena. By M. Bour- jiienne. Numerous Portraits. 4 vols., 8vo., 30s. THE LIFE AND REMAINS OF THEODORE HOOK. By the Rev. R. D. Barhah. Second Edition. 2 vols., post 8vo., 21s. RICHARD BENTLEY, New Burlington Street. - LIFE, SCENERY, AND CUSTOMS IN SIERUA LEONE AND THE GAMBIA. BY THOMAS EYRE POOLE, D.D., FORMERLY OF 3IAGDALEN HALL, OXFORD; AMD COLONIAL AND GARRISON CHAPLAIN OF SIERRA LEONE. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1850. LONDON i Printed by Samuel Bentley & Co., Bangor House, Shoe Lane PREFACE. The following narrative is little more than a transcript of my Journal, kept for private re ference, and which was not originally intended for the press. It has been my aim through out to give a faithful delineation of Life, Customs, and Manners in this interesting Colony, so far as my own personal experience extended. London, November, 1850. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE Feelings on leaving England for Africa. — Preparations for sailing. — Parting with my family. — Troubles in Dock. — Last night, and miseries on board. — At last fairly off . 1 CHAPTER II. View of the English coast down Channel. — Peak of Teneriffe. — Cape Blanco, and beautiful phosphoric ap pearance of the sea. — A calm and its disagreeables. — Land visible. — Bullom shore and cape. — The Carpenter rocks. — Danger and folly of not employing pilots. — First interesting view of Free-town, Sierra Leone. — Past dan gers and troubles. — Pleasure of arrival, and appearance of the harbour. — The landing,place ; its animated scene. — Fishers. — Lower Commissariat store, and bustling life on the wharf. — Meetings and greetings on board. — Landing and first acquaintances ....... 6 CHAPTER III. First night on shore. — Morning beverage. — Coolness of the air. — Delightful situation of my first abode. — The Parade ground and Fort. — Unprotected and dangerous vi CONTENTS. PAGE state of the Parade ground. — Appearance of this spot at this early hour. — Character of men, women, and children ; their dress, occupation, and articles of sale. — Greegrees, or charms. — Women, and their curious method of carry ing, or totting, such things as hottles and basins on their heads. — Their singular and unnatural use of the hand. — Partiality of the men for guns and weapons. — A group of Natives at ease. — Breakfast. — The Piazza ; the idle hour, and evil of the " open house" system . .15 CHAPTER IV. Government house. — Money expended on it. — Ap proach to it ; interior. — Fine prospect from the piazza. — Introductory interview with Mr. Fergusson, the governor, and remarks on appointments. — Career and rise of Mr. Fergusson to the governorship. — Anecdote of him. — First specimen of a long residence in Sierra Leone . .27 CHAPTER V. Chaplaincy duties. — Obstacles to usefulness. — First visit to the Gaol. — Interior of the prison yard. — General appearance of prisoners. — Prison building. — Want of order and discipline. — Female prisoners. — Anecdote illustrat ing female character of Natives. — The Police and their in efficiency. — Gaol officers, and remarks on their efficiency for their duties. — Behaviour of prisoners at Divine service 35 CHAPTER VI. Effect of climate on the spirits, and remedy in change of scene. — Wilberforce and Regent. — A character. — Sessions and unceremonious way of judicial proceed- CONTENTS. vii ings.— Court business. — Crimes. — Prevalency of theft. — A reflection. — Mode of punishment and chain gang. — Necessity of severe measures against stealing. — Cases of theft, and clever cross-examination, by a Native, of a witness, charged with the offence. — Bob Krew, the no torious thief and African Jack Ketch ; anecdotes of him . 54 CHAPTER VII. Williams the penitent murderer. — A reflection. — Last hours in prison. — Contrast of character in another mur derer. — Mode of executions, and some remarks thereon. — The executioner's way of disfiguring himself. — Interest manifested in the case of Williams, and feeling against his female accomplice. — Popular error in respect to the execution of women. — What the effect of the punishment of death in tending to the diminution of crime in Sierra Leone 73 CHAPTER VIII. Streets. — Houses. — Water-street. — Sea-view from the piazzas. — The Market-place. — Custom-house. — Police- office. — Fish-market. — The shark ; boy killed by one while swimming near King-town. — The Colonial Church, St. George's. — Enormous expenditure in its building. — Strange mistake in the Commandments within the altar railings. — Pews. — First time of officiating at St. George's, and my feelings on the occasion 92 CHAPTER IX. Free-town by moonlight. — Brief account of King Tom's, the Wesleyan Missionary establishment.
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