Dedication

pp vii-viii

Contents

pp ix-xi

List of figures

pp xii-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Notes on the Text

pp xv-xv

Table of Weights and Measures

pp xvi-xvi

Introduction

pp xvii-xlix

Preface

pp l-liii

Author's Introduction

pp liv-lvi

Part I

I - Proceedings of the Bulama Society in England

pp 1-14

II - Proceedings of the Colonists from their leaving England to their arrival in the Bijuga Channel, on the Coast of Africa.

pp 15-28

III - Summary of the Calypso's proceedings from the time of her separation to her rejoining the Hankey.

pp 29-34

IV - Proceedings from the Rejunction of the Ships, to the Abandonment of the Island of Bulama by the major Part of the Colonists, in the Ship Calypso.

pp 35-52

Part II

Lieutenant Beaver's Journal on the island of Bulama

pp 53-174

Part III

VI - Apology for those parts of the preceding Journal which may appear either illegal, or harsh—Objections foreseen and answered—Difficulties which we had to overcome stated—Natives’ opinion of the European character—Advantages resulting from our having remained upon the island.

pp 175-190

VII - Recapitulation of the principal causes of our failure—none of which can be attributed either to the difficulty or impracticability of the Enterprise itself.

pp 191-196

VIII - Geographical outline of that part of the African Coast and Continent which is comprised between the Rivers Gambia and Grande; with a brief notice of its southern Inhabitants, its Soil, and principal Animal and Vegetable Productions.

pp 197-206

IX - Of the Bijuga Islands, and Inhabitants.

pp 207-212

X - Of the Island of Bulama; its Produce—Animals—Climate.

pp 213-232

XI - Advantageous position of the Country sketched in Chapter VIII for the purposes of Cultivation and Commerce—its Colonization proposed—Commodities intended to be there produced—how these might affect our West Indian possessions—what effect the Colonization of this Country might have on the African character, particularly with respect to Slavery—and how far it may conduce towards the introduction of Letters and Religion into that Country, as well as to a more accurate knowledge of its interior. Reasons for fixing upon the territory between the Gambia and the Grande, and for beginning the Plantations on the latter, instead of on the former River.—Conclusion.

pp 233-258

Appendices

pp 259-334

Notes

pp 335-379

Bibliography

pp 379-382

Index

pp 383-393