Journal of an Expedition up the Niger
Up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers, 1854
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Journal of an Expedition up the Niger
Up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers, 1854
Samuel Ajayi Crowther · 1809–1891
About this book
In 1854 Samuel Crowther — a Yoruba boy once carried down this same coast in a slave ship, now an ordained missionary — steamed up the Niger and Tshadda rivers aboard the <em>Pleiad</em>, on the first such expedition to come home without losing a man to fever. This is his own day-by-day journal of the voyage: the towns and chiefs he met, the trade and the slavery he witnessed, the Scriptures he read to kings, and his longing to see the gospel and the freed people of Sierra Leone return to the interior of Africa.
June 17: The ‘Bacchante’ arrived this morning from Fernando Po, and brought the painful intelligence of Mr. Beecroft's death, which took place the night before she sailed. I felt this very much as the Expedition was just expected, and I knew no other person connected with it besides him ; this caused a little anxiety, but I resigned everything to God’s good and unerring providence.
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