^ Index 



BasA County, 158-9. 208, 357 



Basa, Grand, 30, 128, 146, 154 et seq., 

 i8s, 188, 193, 198, 208, 217, 232, 371, 

 392, 458 



Basa language, 457, 1099, 1 138 et seq. 



Basa, Little, 166, 169, 371, 457 



Basa People or Tribe, 457, 886, 948, 

 971-2 



Baskets, basket-work, 1015 



Bates, Mr. G. L., 90, 694, 718, 726 



Bats of Liberia, 688 et seq. ; fruit-eating, 

 689-91 ; brush-tongued, 690 ; insect- 

 eating, 691 et seq. ; Rhinolophine, 

 691 ; Nycterid, 691-2 



Bats, origin of the, 686 



Bay-thighed Diana Monkey, 680-1 



Beads, 22, 65, jy, 960 



Beans, 992 



Beasley, Professor C. P., 30, yj 



Beast stories, 1083 et seq. 



Beds, native, 1006 



Bee, bees in Liberia, 854, 865 



Beef, loi, 999 



Beetles of Liberia, 851-2, 866 et seq., 

 998 



Beila people or country, 887 



Belgium, Belgians, 226, 236, 280 



Bells, 1026 



Benedict, Samuel (Liberian), 199, 218 



Beniir, 50, 61, 75, 108 



Benson, J. (Liberian), 137, 193 



Benson, S. A. (President), 230, 234-6, 

 238. 243 



Benue, languages of the, 1103 



Berbers, the, 714 



BerUnia, 530, 600 



Bethencourt, Jean de, 29 et seq., 34 



Bible, the, 353, 1109. See also Testament 



Binger, Fort, 306, 478 



BiNGER, L. G., 30, 252, 932, 956, 970. 993, 

 1090 



Bird lore, 90 



Birds of Liberia, Errata, 758 et seq. 



Birds, origin of, 766 



Birth Customs, 1048 et seq. 



Bisagos Archipelago, 38, 39, 52 



Bishop of London, 226 



Bishops of Liberia, 374 



Bis5 (Bissaw) River, 30, 148, 458 



Bitis, 807, 809 



Bitterns, 772 



" Black, White, and Yellow," 220-1 



Blanco, Cape, 35, 38, 83 



Blanco, Don Pedro, 151, 164 e^ seq., 170, 



226 

 Blattid(s, 847 



Blomfield, Bishop of London, 226 

 Blood, ceremonial use of, 1076 

 Blyden, Dr. E. W., 140, 190, 218, 229, 



231, 256, 263, 277, 383, 1048 

 Bo, Mount, 459, 477, 480 

 Boa snakes, 812-3 

 " Boatswain " (or Bosan), a Kondo chief, 



148, 151, 180, 252 

 Bojador, Cape, 35 

 Bombax tree, 528, 582, iiii 

 Bommi fish (Periophthalmus), 827-8 

 Bondholders, Council of Foreign, 267 

 Bonds of the Liberian Loan (1871), 262, 



336 

 Bongo Tragelaph (broad-horned antelope), 



366, 728 et seq. 

 " Boni " girl (a girl in the initiation 



school), 1033, 1087 

 Boocercus, 366, 728 

 BopoRO, 148, 180, 232, 252, 416, 488-90, 



825, 886 

 Borassus [see Palm), 65, 400, 473 

 Bos, 902 et seq. ; taurus, 902-3, 907-8 ; 



agyptiacus, 902-3, 907 ; indiciis, 902, 



905 

 Bosnian's description of the coast of 



Guinea, 91, 92, 743 

 Boulenger, Mr. G. A., 675, 824, 831 

 Bracken fern, 567, 668 

 Braham, Mr. I. F., Preface, 22, 226, 306, 



476, 739. 767. 831. 934. 944 

 Brander, C, 137, 155 

 Brandy, 74, loi, 154, 173 

 Brass (the metal), 74, 75 

 Brassey, Captain H., 138 

 Braun, Samuel (of Basel), 84 et seq. 

 Brazil, 77, 161, 228 

 Bread-fruit tree, 554, 654, 992 

 Breakers, see Surf 

 Bremen, 228 



" Brer Rabbit " in Africa, 1084 

 Brewerville, 312, 371 

 Bridges, native, 480 

 Bristol and West Africa, 66, 176, 241 



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