The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1827-03-20
From the London Literary Gazette, efJon,
AFRICAN EXPEDIrIoS-LArEST NEWS.
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AFRICAN EXPEDIrIoS-LATEsT NEWS.
Cierer erpedteRt .}91 getting j0reaTd
Ofthe travellers IN Atrloa no accounts have
been received since they were last mentioned ii
the Literary Gazette though the intelligence
there given, has since been .etailod again to tint
public in the circumstantlal shape OF Port Let
ter We have now before us news from Sierra
Leone, of tie 6th ult. at which recent date We
are informed there were no fresh arrivals Ell
,hcr from Captain Clapperton or Major Laing.
Our corresp ondent, however, alludes TO the re-
port which had been in circulation, respecting
me death of Mr. Dickson and informs us that II
has been satisfactorily contradctcd by "a remark
able circumstance which has conferred same Gel.
ehrty on that gentlemaa. On his arrival in the
Shat county, it seems, the influence of NJ. de
Souzy, which had been of so much service to
himuearthe coast, began to fail, and the Shah
natives las Is Isua with these African tribes, J
made a number of petty excuses for the purpose
ofretardlng his progress, the chletof which was,
that the Fetish was not yet favourable to his
advance In proof tins they showed him the
EetISl, which was ind d most unpropitious To
lis wishes Upon this obstacle being so pre-
sentcd, Mi. Dickson asked for and obtained
permission 10 try Whlteman Fetish. Among o.
fher apparatus with which he was liberall;- pro-
Vided, there happened TO be galyanic battery,
and this he erected in the presence of the Shah
people lie then requested fowl 10 be killed;
and having mmediat Is submitted il TO the gal
vantlc action, the dead bird performed the phe-
nomenaso well known in England futtercd,
shook its head and limbs, and almost few away
TO the inexpressible horror and CONSERVATION
otthe amazed natives In short, there was no
resisting such miracle; they instantly ac-
knowledged that his Fetish was conclusive, and
eegged that he would march out of the country
With as much haste as possible. Mr.. Dickson,
oy this ingenious expedient. thus attained his
prnclpa object; but he had great difficulty
IN procuring carriers forhis baggage such was the
alarm produced by galvanism in Africa. Since
this time, nothing further had been heard OF
nm, which the writer considers to be auspicious;
Tor, had bel Il { c says they must have reach
edIhe coast We presume that the inlorma-
uon obtained in the foregoing, has been OBJ
FAMED rom the Africans, who come TO Sierra
Leone from the Interior
The Shah here mentioned, is, we imagine, the
Shar, so spelt in the letters received III May
last, (see Literary Gazette, of the 9th of that
month"; which state that Mr.. Dickson had OBJ
hmed leave from the King of Dahomey TO pro-
oeed thlther, and actually left this court on
the 3lsi of December, 1925, with fifty armed
men, and hundred bearers TO escort him 10
hN destination. ShGr is there said TO be seven
"ch Gays journey towards the north, and situa.
'u 10 the southwest of Rn3ory or Tdorri Ii
was 'othe latter tn Major LANG according to
one siaement, proposed to descend from Tim
o"c'oo, when the river was swollen in August
anu was also for Pd0Uri that Captain Clap
per,on wrote (Iiio, 22d February last,) he was
Nen about TO set off