Colonization and Missions: A Historical Examination of the State of Society in Western Africa, as Formed by Paganism and Muhammedanism, Slavery, the Slave Trade and Piracy, and of the Remedial Influence of Colonization and MissionsMassachusetts Colonization Society, Board of Managers, 1845 - 40 strani |
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Stran 19 - Negroes are all, without exception, crafty, villanous and fraudulent, and very seldom to be trusted, being sure to slip no opportunity of cheating an European, nor indeed one another. A man of integrity is as rare among them as a white falcon...
Stran 20 - Treaty. they had broken the woman's breast. Having thus at least half despatched her, they threw her into the grave, with the remainder of the goat, casting her husband's body over her, and filling up the grave with earth and stones. Immediately, the cries ceasing, a quick silence succeeded the noise, and every one retired home as quietly as if nothing had happened.
Stran 31 - had already a goodly number of pupils, and they were erecting extensive buildings for its permanent accommodation. Governor Mac Carthy wrote : — " I conceive that the first effectual step towards the establishment of Christianity, will be found in the division of this peninsula into parishes, appointing to each a clergyman to instruct his flock in Christianity, and enlightening their minds to the various duties and advantages inherent to civilization ; thus making Sierra Leone the base, from whence...
Stran 39 - Cape has now upon its summit a growing town, having several churches, a missionary establishment, school-houses, a building for the meeting of the courts, printing presses, warehouses, shops, &.c. In fact it possesses most of the conveniences of a small seaport town in the United States, and it is not unusual to see at anchor in its capacious road^ on the same day, one or more vessels of war and two or three merchant •vessels. Hitherto my visits to this place have been necessarily of so short duration...
Stran 19 - ... assistants ate. He also caused the favorite wife to eat some ; who had no great inclination to taste it, knowing it was to be her last. She ate some, however ; and during this repast, the body of the goat was divided in small pieces, broiled and eaten. The lamentations began again ; and when the marbut thought it was time to end the ceremony, he took the favorite wife by the arms, and delivered her to two stout negroes. These, seizing her roughly, tied her hands and feet behind her, and laying...
Stran 8 - Desert were the country of the Senegal and the Jaloffs. With the double design of conquering infidels and finding a passage to India by sea, having already pushed his discoveries to Cape Bojador, he obtained a bull from Pope Martin V., granting to the Portuguese an exclusive right in all the islands they already possessed, and also in all territories they might in future discover, from Cape Bojador to the East Indies. The Pope also granted a plenary indulgence to the souls of all who might perish...
Stran 38 - in the selection of Cape Mesurado as a suitable place of settlement for the colonists, I first saw this beautiful promontory when its dense forests were only inhabited by wild beasts ; since then I have visited it thrice, and each time have noticed with infinite satisfaction, its progressive improvement.
Stran 21 - One century ago," he remarks, "a great part of this line of coast was populous, cleared of trees, and under cultivation. It is now covered with a dense and almost continuous forest. This is almost wholly a second growth; commonly distinguished from the original by the profusion of brambles and brushwood, which abounds amongst the larger trees, and renders the woods entirely impervious, even to the natives, until paths are opened by the bill-hook.
Stran 32 - ... so that, on this account, as we are expressly informed, in 1730, there was not a single European factory on that whole coast. Trade was then carried on by ships passing along the coast, and stopping wherever the natives kindled a fire as a signal for traffic. And this continued to be the usual mode of intercourse on that coast, when the British Parliament, in 1791, began to collect evidence concerning the slave trade.