Report of Commander W. F. Lynch, in Relation to His Mission to the Coast of Africa (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Aston, W. G.

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ISBN 10: 1440062706 ISBN 13: 9781440062704

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2012

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Excerpt from Report of Commander W. F. Lynch, in Relation to His Mission to the Coast of Africa, 1853

A letter received fi'om Sierra Leone since my return here, reports a large proportionate increase for the first quarter of the present year; but as it is not official, I withhold it. It will be seen that the reported exports very much exceed the imports; and the inference is, that all of the latter, as well as the former, are not entered at the custom-house, but distributed in the neighboring rivers.

Leaving Sierra Leone for Monrovia, with a fair wind, we passed Sherbro island and the Shebar and Gallinas rivers, and on the second day made Cape Mount.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1440062706
• ISBN 13: 9781440062704
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 68