Index 



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Port of Entry, Law of 1865, 248 



Porters, porterage, native, 425 



Portolano, the Laurentian (old fourteenth- 

 century map of Africa), 35 



Ports of entry, list of, 248, 392-3 



Portugal : in Morocco, },j , 45 et scq. ; 

 influence of, on West African history, 

 45-6 et seq., 52-3, y6, 81, 84, 900-1 



Portuguese, the, 36, 37 et seq., 51-3, 61, 

 69, 76, 81, 342, 900-1 ; language, 49, 

 52, 65 ; names in West African and 

 Liberian geography, 49 et seq. ; and 

 the slave trade, 105 et seq., 162, 171 



Pcftitlaca spinach, 992, 996 



Post Office, Liberian, 2i--~i 



Postage stamps, 324-5, 327-9 



Potamochcerus pigs, 76, 717-8 



Potatoes, sweet, 990 



Pottery, native, 1003, 1008, loio 



Potto, the, 684-5 



POWNEY, LlEUT.-Coi,. Cf.CIL, 290, 392 



Prawns, 843, 863 



Prefix languages in West Africa, 1092-4 



Presbyterians, 353 



President of Liberia, 208 ; his powers, 



210 ; term of office, 218, 331-2 

 Presidents of Liberia, 223, 376 

 Press in Liberia, 206, 358, 392 

 " Prince Regent " (British steamer), 139, 



140 

 Printing presses, 160 

 Procovia, 708-9 

 Prognathism, 937-8 

 Protestant Christianity, 353 

 Protopterus, 826 



Prout, Jacob W. (Liberian), 199 

 Prout, S. T. (Liberian), 378 

 Prout, William A. (Liberian), 233-4 

 Providence Island, 96, 130-1 

 Psettiis, 829 



Psittaciis tinineh, 777-9 

 Puff adder, Gaboon (Bitis gabonica), 807, 



809 ; horned {B. nasiconiis), 807, 809 

 Pumpkins, 1002 

 Purchase-price of nucleus of Liljeria in 



1821, 129 

 Puritanism in Liberia, 353 

 PuTU country, language, and people, 22, 



466, 499, 501-2, 510, 952, 1099, II 36, 



1 1 38 et seq. 



Pycnanthus, 542, 645 



Pye-Smith, Mr. J. M., 90, 717, 763, 787, 



790, II 36 

 Pygmy races, 13, 887 et seq. 

 Pythons, 812-3, 1090 



Quadroon, the, 344, 395 

 " Quail," the (gunboat), 227 

 Quakers and the slave trade, the, 1 1 1, 155 

 " Qua-Qua " (Ivory Coast), 85 

 Quartz, 514, 516-7, 519 

 Queen Victoria, 227, 276 

 " Quoja " people (of Dapper), 86 ; see 

 Kwia 



Railey, Colonel J. A. (Liberian), 380, 383 

 Rainfall : in Liberia, 500 et seq ; in West 



Africa, 500-1, 503 

 Rainy season in Liberia, 137-8, 497 

 Ramusio (Italian geographer), quoted, 41 

 Randall, Dr., 143, 146, 151 

 Rapliia {see Palm and Piassava), 79, 1015 

 Rask, J. (Danish eighteenth-century 



traveller), 102-3 

 Rats, 696 



Read, Mr. C. H., 22 

 Reade, Winwood, 256-7 

 Red River hog {Potainochariis), jG, 368, 



716-8, 720 

 " Regina Coeli," case of the, 238 

 Religion in Liberia, 204, 1061 et seq. 

 Religion of the tall hat and frock coat, 



356-7 

 Religiosity of the Americo-Liberians, 3 5 3-4 

 Remedies, native, 986-8 

 Repatriation schemes for Negro slaves, 1 14 



et seq., 275 

 Representatives, House of, 208, 261, 



379, 38-2 

 Reptiles of Liberia, 807 et seq. 

 Republic of Liberia, 199 et seq. 

 Revenue of Liberia, 335 

 Revolution, the only Liberian, 261 

 " Reynard the Fox," 10S4 

 Reynolds, Mr. Harold, 416, 438, 508, 



531. 567, 57^. 759. 777, 7^7, 872, et 

 seq., 952 

 Rliektophylhim, 559, 566 



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