FOOTNOTES:
[60] Industrial and Social Life of the Empire. Macmillan and Co.
[61] For Lagos, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone and Gambia from 1892 to 1896, £2,364,266.
[62] Forty-eighth annual report Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, 1898.
| £ | Increase. | ||
| Expenditure on police and gaols, | 1896 | 31,504 | £ |
| " " | 1887 | 3,037 | 28,467 |
| Expenditure on transport | 1896 | 10,091 | |
| " " | 1887 | 3,298 | 6,793 |
| Expenditure on public works | 1896 | 6,736 | |
| " " | 1887 | 1,417 | 5,319 |
| Aggregate Increase | 40,579 |
[64] “The Liquor Traffic in West Africa,” Fortnightly Review, April, 1898.
[65] Colonial Reports, Miscellaneous, No. 3, 1893. G. F. Scott Elliott M.A., F.L.S., and C. A. Raisin, B.Sc.
[66] French colonies—
| Imports. | Exports. | |||
 | | |||
| 1896. | 1897. | 1896. | 1897. | |
| £ | £ | £ | £ | |
| Senegal | 1,047,000 | 1,167,000 | 783,000 | 845,000 |
| French Guinea | 185,000 | 240,000* | 231,000 | 201,000* |
| Ivory Coast | 186,000 | 188,000 | 176,000 | 189,000 |
| Dahomey | 389,000 | 330,000 | 364,000 | 231,000 |
| French Congo | 192,000 | ** | 190,000 | ** |
| * For nine months only. | ||||
| ** No statistics. | ||||