Report on the climate and principle diseases of the African station; compiled from the documents in the office of the Director-General of the Medical Department, and from other sources: in compliance with the directions of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty / Under the immediate direction of Sir William Burnett. By Alexander Bryson.

  • Bryson, Alexander, 1802-1869.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Report on the climate and principle diseases of the African station; compiled from the documents in the office of the Director-General of the Medical Department, and from other sources: in compliance with the directions of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty / Under the immediate direction of Sir William Burnett. By Alexander Bryson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TOPOGRAPHICAL REMARKS ON THE AFRICAN STATION, EXTENDING FROM CAPE VERDE ON THE NORTH, TO CAPE NEGRO ON THE SOUTH OF THE EQUATOR. In order that the following details, abstracted from the medical reports of the African station, may be clearly under- stood, it will be advisable to premise them by briefly advert- ing to the different localities frequented by the cruisers when at sea, the various ports and harbours to which they resort for the purpose of obtaining supplies of provisions, wood, and water, or for refitting, as well as cursorily to notice the different slave establishments along the coast. During the first ten years of the period included in this report, the traffic in slaves was vigorously prosecuted under the flags of several nations, on difierent parts of the coast, from the Gambia on the north, to Benguela on the south of the equator; while from certain anomalous clauses in the treaties then in existence, as the right of capture did not extend to vessels sailing to the south of the line under Brazilian colours, where, for the sake of security, they were generally assumed, the operations of the British cruisers were principally although not entirely confined to the northern latitudes, between the parallel of Cape Verde and the equator. The squadron at that time seldom exceeded ten, twelve, or four- teen pendants including tenders; the duties, therefore, of so B