September, 1915.

CONTENTS

PART I
CHAPTER I
PAGE
Introductory[1]
CHAPTER II
The Poro, Tongo Play, Borfima, Witch-doctors, Oaths[15]
CHAPTER III
The Kale Case[27]
CHAPTER IV
The Imperri Case[36]
CHAPTER V
The Kabati Case[44]
CHAPTER VI
The Yandehun Case[61]
CHAPTER VII
Borfima and Membership Cases[71]
CHAPTER VIII
Other Cases of Leopard Murder; the Human Baboon Society[80]
PART II
CHAPTER IX
A Note on Sierra Leone, Past and Present[88]
APPENDIX
Despatch from the Governor of Sierra Leone reporting on the Measures adopted to deal with Unlawful Societies in the Protectorate[119]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Sackville Street, Freetown[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
View of Freetown[1]
A Temne Girl[3]
Oblivious of Human Alligators[9]
Poro Devils[15]
Entrance to a Poro Bush[19]
Bundu Devils, Sierra Leone[21]
Wives of a Native Chief[25]
A Poro Devil[28]
Weaving Country Cloth[30]
Bundu Girls and Devil[35]
Stockade surrounding Gbangbama Prison and Guardhouse. Prisoners awaiting Trial, Gbangbama Prison[38]
A Natural Bridge on the Road to Gbangbama[43]
A Native Village[46]
Palm Forest, Sierra Leone[51]
A Native Village[56]
A Self-Confessed Cannibal[63]
A Water-side Village[66]
Hinterland Types[71]
West African Soldiers[74]
The Prisoners of a Native Chieftainess, cracking Palm-Kernels[79]
Ladies of the Sierra Leone Hinterland[83]
A Native Chieftainess[85]
Empire Day in Freetown[88]
Where Hawkins may have Landed for Slaves[90]
Threshing Rice, Sierra Leone Protectorate[93]
A Native Hunter[96]
Picking Palm-Kernels[99]
The Highland of Sierra Leone, with Hill Station in the Foreground[104]
Bundu Girls and Bundu Devils[111]
Cotton Tree Station, 9 a.m. Bungalow Train, Freetown[115]
Freetown from the Harbour[117]
View from Government House, Freetown[125]

VIEW OF FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE.

HUMAN LEOPARDS

PART I

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY