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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)CMS/ACC726 F1
TitleJournal
Extent1 doc.
Date1841
DescriptionKept by J. F. Schon, covering the period 24 June - 6 September 1841 during the first Niger Expedition: probably an incomplete original of the official copy sent to CMS; this version is closely written with a few alterations (32pp. foolscap)

For the official copy (156pp.), which has the heading 'Journal of the Rev. James Frederick Schon kept during a voyage along the Coast of Western Africa from Sierra Leone to the mouth of the river Nun; and into the interior of Africa as far as Egypt 1841' see CMS/ C A1/0195/72; it continues to 18 Oct 1841.
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