"We'll give the boys the rest they need and send Terrier to Sar Leone for coal.

As a result of these efforts some four hundred Negroes and sixty whites were landed at Sierra Leone in May, 1787.

The colony founded at Sierra Leone by English philanthropists drew in part its inspiration from Hopkins' idea, and in turn suggested later American plans.

From the sketch we have given of the Niger and its branches, and of the countries bordering upon them, it would appear to be the proper policy of Great Britain and other commercial nations to open a way from Sierra Leone to the Niger, and to establish a colony near the confluence of this river with the Benue.