[23] Life of William Allen, I, 99-105.
[24] The diary is from Paul Cuffe's Journal in the Cuffe Manuscripts.
[25] Life of William Allen, I, 103.
[26] The Seventh Report of the Directors of the African Institution is in the Edinburgh Review, XXI.
[27] Life of William Allen, I, 105.
[28] In the Cuffe Manuscripts.
[29] In the Cuffe Manuscripts. Dated June 12, 1812.
[30] The Cuffe Manuscripts. Dated June 12, 1812.
[31] In Cuffe Manuscripts. Paul Cuffe to William Allen, April 4, 1811.
A summary of his observations came out in print in 1812. It was called "A Brief Account of the Settlement and Present Situation of the Colony of Sierra Leone in Africa,"[32] and was dedicated to "his friend in New York." It contains an account of the topography of the country and states that the population was 2,518.