RECORDS OF CAPTAIN CLAPPERTON’S LAST EXPEDITION TO =AFRICA:=
BY RICHARD LANDER, HIS FAITHFUL ATTENDANT, AND THE ONLY SURVIVING MEMBER OF THE EXPEDITION:
WITH THE SUBSEQUENT ADVENTURES OF THE AUTHOR.
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IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
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LONDON: HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1830.
CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
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INTRODUCTION ix
SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR’S LIFE 1
CHAPTER I.
List of the Gentlemen and others engaged in the Mission — 15 The Brazen sails from Portsmouth — Touches at the Madeiras, Canaries, and Cape de Verd Islands — Pursues and overtakes a French slave ship — Falls in with H.M.S. Swinger — Arrives and anchors at Sierra Leone — The Author’s first illness
CHAPTER II.
The ship sails again — Captures a Spanish schooner with slaves 29 — The natives on the coast come on board — Vessel anchors at Cape Coast — Sails from thence, and captures another slave vessel — Arrives at Whydah, where Mr. Dickson lands — His progress through the country, and reported death — The Brazen comes to an anchor in Badagry Roads — The Gentlemen of the Mission give a last farewell to the officers on board, and proceed on shore
CHAPTER III.
The travellers reach Badagry, and leave that city on the 7th of 45 December — Dr. Morrison’s illness — Arrival at Latoo — Captain Pearce and the Author attacked with fever — Enter Jannah — Continued and alarming illness of the party — Their progress — Dr. Morrison returns to Jannah