West African studies
Transcriber’s Note
Footnotes have been located at the end of each chapter.
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WEST AFRICAN STUDIES
MARY H. KINGSLEY
AUTHOR OF “TRAVELS IN WEST AFRICA”
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
LONDON
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1899
Mary Henrietta Kingsley
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PREFACE TO THE READER
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FETISH.
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SCHOOLS OF FETISH
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NATIVE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN BENIN, AND RELIGION
ORIGIN OF THE BENIN CITY PEOPLE
BRASS RIVER
RELIGION
NEW CALABAR
BONNY AND THE PEPPLE FAMILY
ANDONI RIVER AND ITS INHABITANTS.
OPOBO RIVER.
KWO IBO.
OLD CALABAR.
SECRET SOCIETIES AND FESTIVALS IN OLD CALABAR—AND THE COUNTRIES UP THE CROSS RIVER
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A VOYAGE TO THE AFRICAN OIL RIVERS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. BY JOHN HARFORD
TRADING IN THE CAMEROONS
PIONEERING IN WEST AFRICA; OR, “THE OPENING UP OF THE QUA IBOE RIVER”
TRADE GOODS USED IN THE EARLY TRADE WITH AFRICA AS GIVEN BY BARBOT AND OTHER WRITERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. BY M. H. KINGSLEY
GAMBIA TRADE, 1678.
SIERRA LEONE, 1678.
THE GOLD COAST.
USE MADE OF EUROPEAN GOODS BY THE NATIVES OF THE GOLD COAST. BARBOT.
SELECTION OF GOODS FOR FIDA OR ONIDAH, CALLED BY THE FRENCH JUIDA, NOW KNOWN AS DAHOMEY, WITH MAIN SEAPORT WHYDAH.
BENIN TRADE GOODS.
OUWERE (NOW CALLED WARRI) TRADE, AND THE NEW CALABAR TRADE, 1678.
OLD CALABAR TRADE, 1678.
TRADE OF RIO DEL REY, AMBOZES COUNTRY, CAMARONES RIVER, AND DOWN TO RIO GABON.
SELECTION OF GOODS FOR THE ISLANDS FERNANDO PO, ST. THOMAS’S, PRINCE’S, AND ANNOBON.
TRADE GOODS FOR CONGO AND CABENDA, 1700.
TRADE GOODS FOR SAN PAUL DO LOANDA.
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