A field ethnographer to visit West Africa before the second half of the 19th century, the author of this work presents an informative description of the surrounding tribes together with a collection of Temne, Bulom and Susu vocabularies. The second volume represents a systematic account of African medicine, diseases, remedies and therapeutic plants. The volumes were first published in 1803.

Sierra Leone in West Africa is the subject of this 1803 work by English physician Thomas Winterbottom (1766 1859). In the 1790s he spent four years there working for the Sierra Leone Company (established by abolitionists to resettle ex-slaves), and combating diseases such as malaria and scurvy. He displays none of the pejorative views of Africa or its inhabitants that some of his contemporaries expressed, but has a very positive opinion of the country. Winterbottom describes the women as beautiful and graceful, and he dismisses racial differentiations based on skin colour as being absurd. In...

Sierra Leone in West Africa is the subject of this 1803 work by English physician Thomas Winterbottom (1766 1859). In the 1790s he spent four years there working for the Sierra Leone Company (established by abolitionists to resettle ex-slaves), and combating diseases such as malaria and scurvy. He displays none of the pejorative views of Africa or its inhabitants that some of his contemporaries expressed, but has a very positive opinion of the country. Winterbottom describes the women as beautiful and graceful, and he dismisses racial differentiations based on skin colour as being absurd. In...