and fifty leagues. There is a fort upon Benee Island, in Sierra Leone, which formerly belonged to the Old African Campany: they also had a fort on an island in the river Sherbro; but the former was in private hands, and of the latter, scarcely the foundations were visible, when I first went to Africa. There is no fort or factory upon this coast, under the sanction of our government; but there were, as I have said, and probably still are, private traders resident at Benee Island, at the Bananoes,