Also includes a memorandum on the introduction of female education into West Africa, the growing of cotton, ginger, and other spices and groundnuts, the pastoral activities of the Fulani people, and the need for a small defence force. He mentions that the British had earlier bought a tract of land below McCarthy's island (Janjanbureh Island) and might still own it, though payment of rent had lapsed, that Britain held sovereignty over land in Berra of about 70 miles along the bank of the Gambia, and a that grant of land had been offered by a chief to the Missionary Society without full relinquishment of ownership. He also reports that the free formerly enslaved people of St. Mary's were always willing to work for pay.