Title

Matacong, on the West Coast of Africa - the Pier, Warehouses, etc., 1854. Creator: Unknown.

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Matacong, on the West Coast of Africa - the Pier, Warehouses, etc., 1854. Sketch accompanying an article on '...the progress in "legitimate trade" [at the island of Matakong off the coast of Guinea], and the great benefits which it cannot fail to confer upon the African race...Matacong (a corruption of Mata-can)...lies to the westward of the mouth of the Fouricariah river...Fish abound...and attract...fishermen from Sierra Leone...The silk cotton tree (Bombax Ceiba) grows here in great luxuriance...Here the African shows that secular and religious education has not been wholly thrown away upon him; and that he possesses sufficient intelligence and energy to become coadjutant in working out his welfare...trading has been carried on - the amount of exports and imports increasing, till the latter, in British manufactured goods alone, amount, in the present year, to £60,000'. From "Illustrated London News", 1854.

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Keywords

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