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Thompson, (Captain Thomas Bolton) of the Royal navy was second lieutenant of the Grampus in 1784, 1785, and 1786, and commanded his Majesty's ship the Nautilus in 1787, in carrying out the Black Poor to Sierra Leon, where he was from the beginning of May, to the end of September.—[III. 167.]

Tottenham, (Major-General) went out to the West Indies in 1779, with four regiments under his command. He was about twenty months in Barbadoes, and some time at St. Lucia, St. Kitts, and St. Eustatius.—[III. 125.]

Towne, (Mr. James) carpenter of his Majesty's ship Syren, made two voyages in 1760 and 1768 to the Isles de Los, and Grand Cape Mount. In the first he was between seven and eight months on the coast as a boy; in the second, as carpenter, he staid more than six months.—[IV. 15.]

Trotter, (Thomas, M. D.) surgeon in the Royal navy, was a voyage in the African slave-trade, from Liverpool, in 1783, as surgeon of the Brookes, Captain Noble. He was ten months on the coast. [III. 80.]


Wadstrom, (Charles Berns, Esq.) Chief Director of the Assay Office in Sweden, was in Africa near three months, in 1787 and 1788, with Doctor Spaarman, engaged by the King of Sweden to make discoveries.— [III. 18. & 19.]

Wilson, (Captain Thomas) of the Royal Navy, was between five and six months in Africa, between Cape Blanco and the River Gambia, in 1783 and 1784, as commander of his Majesty's ship Racehorse: he was sent out to embark the troops and stores from Goree.— [III. 3 & 4.]

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