Sierra Leone interesting letter from Thomas Farquarson to an attorney dated 1792 announcing that ‘the Sierra Leone company about to settle on the coast of African and I am in some terms for me to go out Governor to that place...the accounts of the fertility of its soil are very favourable but then the heat must be immediately great – tho’ not more so than Jamaica I should suppose. Were I to go I have reason to believe I would get 2 companies of soldiers from Government...’