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The Journal of Isaac DuBois

from Anna Maria Falconbridge Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone during the years 1791–1792–1793

Christopher Fyfe
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Before leaving the Colony Clarkson had asked Isaac DuBois to keep and send him a daily journal, to let him know what was going on in the Colony. It survives among the Clarkson Papers (British Library, Add. MS 41263, fols 1–17) and is reproduced here to complement the Narrative. Though addressed to Clarkson, it refers to him in the third person. DuBois's idiosyncratic punctuation and spelling have been retained: corrections, in square brackets, have been inserted only when the sense demands it. The passages he underlined, to bring them to Clarkson's special attention, have been italicised. Three subsequent letters he wrote to Clarkson have been added at the end (Add. MS 41263, fols 30–1, 38–40, 45–6).

Free Town Sierra Leone 31st December 1792

My dear Sir

We arrived safe and well in the hours after parting with you last night but to be sure I found my spirits much more oppressed then usual. This morning I resolved to begin the Journal you desired me to keep in your Absence, tho I greatly fear it will neither be so satisfactory as I could wish, or as it might be, was not my time continually occupied with business, however you may be assured of a fair and ingenuous statement of every thing as it happens, or as I come acquainted with it — it is not my intention to keep a diary of the weather, that I shall leave for my friend Afzellius, who has less to do than I have, or in other words who makes that a part of his vocations — but I shall confine myself merely to the affairs and occurances in the Colony.

Jany 1st 1793

Our Neighbour Paa: Queit brought me six Gramattas this morning — Mr Dawes called on me this morning — and last night also — This being New Years Day little or no work is done in the Colony — except by a few — Mr Dawes called on me again this evening and asked me to accompany him to King Naimbannas tomorrow which I have promised to do — every thing quiet!!

January 2d. Having a small fever last night am prevented from accompanying Mr Dawes to King Naimbannas today — he breakfasted with me and went up alone — Charming weather — I find myself much better in the evening.

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Anna Maria Falconbridge
Narrative of Two Voyages to the River Sierra Leone during the Years 1791-1792-1793
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Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Print publication year: 2000

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