Records of Captain Clapperton's Last Expedition to Africa

Abstract

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.