Volume 1: Introduction; Sketch of the author's life; 1. Life of the gentlemen and others engaged in the mission; 2. The ship sails again; 3. The travellers reach Badagry, and leave that city on the 7th of December; 4. Deaths of Dawson, Captain Pearce, and Dr. Morrison; 5. Residence at Katunga; 6. Widow Zuma's love adventures; 7. Residence at Kano; 8. The author quits Kano to join his master; 9. Religion. Volume 2: 10. Character of the Africans in general; 11. The author resumes his narrative; 12. The author's severe indisposition and distress of mind; 13. Pasko; 14. The author overtaken at Dunrora by four armed horsemen from Zeg Zeg, who force him to accompany them back to Zaria; 15. The author becoming entangled, whilst crossing a river, in the stirrups of his horse's saddle, is thrown from its back, and narrowly escapes drowning; 16. Ebo the celebrated fat Eunuch; 17. Novel method adopted by Europeans for conveying slaves on board their vessels; 18. The fetish-huts and tree at Badagry; 19. Captain Laing, of the Brig Maria, of London, hearing that an Englishman was at Badagry, comes from Whydah to fetch the Author.