6585. Mr. _Aldam_.] If the opposite coast is swampy, would not fever almost always prevail there when the wind sets from the land?--I am not at all able to say what causes fever, for we find it under all circumstances; you find sometimes swampy places less unhealthy than high places. 6586. Mr. _Forster_.] Did you land on the island of Bulama?--Yes. 6587. Have you seen any considerable portion of the island?--No, I have not, excepting the coast. 6588. Is it your opinion that there is open ground there?--I found the ground under cultivation, and therefore only told the people that it was a British island; I thought it would have been injudicious to remove them and let jungles spring up before the Government took possession of it. 6589. You saw no extraordinary obstacle to the cultivation and improvement of the island?--Decidedly not; I think it is the most favourable spot for cultivation I have seen upon the coast of Africa. 6590. Have you been up to the river Nunez or the river Pongas?--I have been up the Nunez and the Pongas. 6591. To what distance?--I went up the Nunez as high as Kacundy, about 40 or 50 miles in a direct line; it is where the British factories are; it is the place to which all the trade of the Foota-Jallon nation is brought. 6592. Did you land upon the banks of the river?--Yes; I was five days in the river altogether. 6593. Did you see any thing of the state of the cultivation?--I had no means of judging; I do not believe the exports of the produce raised in the neighbourhood of the river itself at all important; the important commerce is that which is brought down from Foota-Jallon; and the opportunities I had of judging gave me the highest impression of the state of that country. I think they are far superior to any other African people I have ever had the means of acquiring a knowledge of; they are a Foolah nation, in the Foota-Jallon country; Teembo is the capital. 6594 Mr. _Forster_.] You found those British factories depending entirely upon the protection of the natives, without any British establishment to assist them?--I went up for the purpose of affording them protection; there is no Government establishment of any sort, nor do I think it desirable there should be. 6595. Sir _T. D. Acland_.] What is the ground of that opinion?--That the river is exceedingly unhealthy; and my opinion is that the Government influence would be quite as well supported by occasional visits by steam ships, and Bulama would afford support to the trade, if colonized. 6596. _Chairman._] What kind of settlement do you contemplate upon the island of Bulama?--A colony of black people, with any traders there that choose to go there, supported by a small fort, with a detachment of the African corps. 6597. Sir _T. D. Acland_.] Under the English Government?--Under the English Government. 6597*. And visited by steamers?--And visited by steamers and cruizers.