FOOTNOTES:
[1] Mr. McEachen first traded there in a hulk, but, after about two years, withdrew in 1873. No trade was done in this river by white men until Mr. Harford went in, since then it has continued.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| CHAPTER I | |
| [INTRODUCTORY] | 1 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| [SIERRA LEONE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS] | 35 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| [AFRICAN CHARACTERISTICS] | 62 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| [FISHING IN WEST AFRICA] | 88 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| [FETISH] | 112 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| [SCHOOLS OF FETISH] | 136 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| [FETISH AND WITCHCRAFT] | 156 |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| [AFRICAN MEDICINE] | 180 |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| [THE WITCH DOCTOR] | 199 |
| CHAPTER X | |
| [EARLY TRADE IN WEST AFRICA] | 220 |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| [FRENCH DISCOVERY OF WEST AFRICA] | 250 |
| CHAPTER XII | |
| [COMMERCE IN WEST AFRICA] | 281 |
| CHAPTER XIII | |
| [THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM] | 301 |
| CHAPTER XIV | |
| [THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM IN WEST AFRICA] | 314 |
| CHAPTER XV | |
| [MORE OF THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM] | 324 |
| CHAPTER XVI | |
| [THE CLASH OF CULTURES] | 363 |
| CHAPTER XVII | |
| [AN ALTERNATIVE PLAN] | 392 |
| CHAPTER XVIII | |
| [AFRICAN PROPERTY] | 420 |
| APPENDIX | |
| [I.] A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE NATIVES OF THE NIGER COAST PROTECTORATE, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR CUSTOMS, RELIGION, TRADE, ETC. BY M. LE COMTE C. N. DE CARDI | 443 |
| [II.] A VOYAGE TO THE AFRICAN OIL RIVERS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. BY JOHN HARFORD | 567 |
| [III.] TRADE GOODS USED IN THE EARLY TRADE WITH AFRICA AS GIVEN BY BARBOT AND OTHER WRITERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. BY M. H. KINGSLEY. | 615 |
| [INDEX] | 635 |