Freetown, Sierra Leone (engraving)

Labelled in the image are the Mandingo caravanserai, Murray Point, Wesleyan Miss Ho, King Tom's Point, Glen Huntley, Royal Albert; Freetown was a Crown Colony from 1808-1961 and was the capital of British West Africa and the base of the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron; The boat 'The Royal Albert' is likely to be the HMS Albert that, launched in 1840, was used for both expeditions up the Niger river and for anti-slavery reinforcement; Glen Huntley was an immigrant ship that that left Greenock, Scotland in 1839 bound for Australia and would have passed down the west coast of Africa; The Wesleyan Mission was a methodist mission that was established in Freetown in 1811; The Mandingo people, with whom the caravanserai is concerned, are those of an extensive linguistic group in western Africa;