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These materials consist primarily of the African, Furley and Folio collections which are being kept at the Africana section of the Balme Library, University of Ghana. Furley and Folio were Dutch writers in the colonial period in the history of Ghana

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The collection includes documentary materials relating to the history of Ghana, old books, maps, engravings, pamphlets and manuscripts but most of all archival material. Some portions of the Furley collection contains essays on the local history, customs histories and constitutions of the various tribes of the Gold Coast which was later published in two slim volumes by Welman on Ahanta and Peki

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Furley presented his enormous collection of documentary materials of various kinds to the library of the University College of the Gold Coast. After his death, his widow added to this collection some materials which Furley had collected in the last years of his life

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    Report from the Select Committee on Papers Relating to the African Forts
    (The House of Commons, London., 1816-06-26) The House of Commons
    The Committee to whom the several Papers which were presented to The House upon the 9th day of this instant May, from the Committee of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, were referred, to examine the Matter thereof, and report the same, with their observations thereupon, to The House; and to whom the Petition of the Committee of the Company of Merchants trading to Africa, and the Copy of the Report of the Commissioners sent out by His Majesty’s Government, to investigate the state of the Settlements and Forts on the Coast of Africa, were also referred; and who were empowered to report the Minutes of Evidence taken before them to The House;- Have, pursuant to the Order of The House, examined the Matters to them referred, and have agreed to the following Report:
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    Report from the Select Committee on Africa (Western Coast); together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix.
    (The House of Commons, 1865) The Select Committee
    The Committee appointed to consider the state of British Establishments on the West Coast of Africa, have agreed to the following Report. They have taken Evidence from several Civil, Military and Naval Officers, Merchants, and Missionaries, and from one Native Envoy.
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    Report from the Select Committee on the West Coast of Africa; together with the Minutes of Evidence, Appendix, and Index. (Part I- Report and Evidence)
    (The House of Commons, 1842-08-05) The Select Committee
    The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the State of the British Possessions on the West Coast of Africa, more especially with reference to their present Relations with the neighbouring Native Tribes, and who were empowered to Report their Observations, together with the Minutes of Evidence taken before them, to The House.
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    An Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce, wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Month of August, 1815.
    (T. &W. Mercein, No. 93 Gold – Street, New - York., 1817) Riley, J.
    The following Narrative of my misfortune and sufferings, and my consequent travels and observations in Africa. The very deep and indelible impression made on my mind by extraordinary circumstances attending my late shipwreck, and the miserable captivity of myself and my surviving shipmates, and believing that knowledge of many of these incidents might prove useful and interesting to the world.
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    Records of Captain Clapperton's Last Expedition Africa VOL. II.
    (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1830) Lander, R.
    THE Character Plutarch gives of the Athenians is strictly applicable to the people of Africa in general, in times of peace:-" They are easily provoked to anger, and as easily induced to resume sentiments of benevolence and compassion." This we found to be true in numberless instances; particularly amongst the gentler sex, whose apprehensions are quicker and livelier, and whose finer feelings more easily excited than those of their male companions. We not unfrequently observed persons quarrelling and fighting in one moment, with all the bitterness of angry and elevated passions, and in the next as gentle as lambs, and the most cordial friends in the universe; forgetting their previous noisy dispute in the performance of reciprocal acts of kindness and good nature.
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    Proceedings of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa.
    (C. Macrae, Printer to the Association, 1790) Earl, C.
    THE Narrative of the Proceedings of the Society that was formed in the year 1788, for the purpose of Promoting the Discovery of the Inland Districts of Africa, was written, at the request of his Colleagues, by one of the Members of the Committee of that Association; and is now printed at the desire, and for the ufe of. The Society: but as it may also be read by persons unacquainted with Origin and Object of the Undertaking to which it relates, the following Paper, as descriptive of both, is republished for their information.
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    Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa, From the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo
    (John Murray, Albemable Street., 1829) Clapperton
    Captain Hugh Clapperton was born in Annan, Dumfries-shire, in the year 1788. His grandfather, Robert Clapperton, M. D., was a man of considerable knowledge, as a classical scholar, and in his profession. He first studied at Edinburgh; but as, in those days, the continental colleges were considered superior in medicine and surgery; he went to Paris, and there studied for some time. On his return to his native country, he married Elizabeth Campbell, second cousin of Colonel Archibald Campbell of Glenlyon; and soon after settled in Dumfries-shire, at a place called Crowden Nows, where he remained until George Clapperton (the father of our traveller), and another son were born. He afterwards removed to Lochmaben, where he had an increase to his family of four sons and one daughter. All the son became medical men, except the youngest and the only survivor, who entered his Majesty's service, in the beginning of 1793, as a second lieutenant of marines. His eldest son, George Clapperton, married young to a daughter of John Johnstone, proprietor of the lands of Thorniwhate IUld Lochmaben Castle, and settled in Annan, where he was a considerable time the only medical man of repute in the place, and performed many operations and cures which spread his fame over the borders of England and Scotland. His father bestowed a good education upon him, which proved so useful a passport to public favour, that he might have made a fortunc; but, unfortunately, he was, like his father, careless of money. He married a second wife, and was the father of no fewer than twenty-one children. Of the fruit of the first marriage, he had six sons and one daughter who grew to men and women's estate. All the sons entered his Majesty's service, the youngest of whom was Captain Clapperton, the African traveller, and the subject of this memoir.
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    Records of Captain Clapperton's Last Expedition to Africa
    (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830) Lander, R.
    On my return from Africa in the summer of 1828, I was so ill with fever and debility, that I had neither spirit nor inclination to devote much time to the compilation and arrangement of my notes, and of the short sketches of character taken by stealth in the heart of that continent. My duty and sole design, in laying my Journal before the British Government, were to satisfy Ministers with regard to my conduct after the decease of Captain Clapperton, my lamented master; and to make them acquainted with the •manner in which the property left in my charge at Soccatoo bad been disposed of, ill my hazardous journey back to the sea- coast. Besides.