I send you inclosed a small specimen of African manuscripst, which I obtained from one of the natives of that quarter of the globe, on a voyage into Sierra Leone River, in the year 1795. Pieces of manuscript of a similar kind are in general use among a tribe of Africans, called Mandingos, who inhabit a part of Africa, situated about one hundred miles to the northward of the British colony at Sierra Leone. They are commonly folded into a smali compass, and inclosed in little leathern cases, to which are fixed leathern thongs, by means of which they are hung, and constantly worn, round either the necks or waists of the Mandingos.