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Index 



Spirits of the departed, belief in, 1063, 



1068 

 Spondias lutea fruit, 591, 993 

 Spoons, 990, loio 

 Squirrels, 695 et seq. 

 Stachytarpheta, 542, 642, 988 

 Stampfli, F. X., xvi, 290, 738, 787 

 Stapf, Dr. Otto, title-page, vii, 521, 570 



et seq. 

 Starlings, metallic, ■j^t, 

 Steamers on the West African Coast, 184, 



240, 293 

 Stevens, Mr. J. C. (Liberian), 266 



Stick insects {Phasmidce), 849, 862 

 Sting rays (Trygon), 831 

 Stockfish (fish for trade), 398 

 Stockton, Captain R. F., 128, 441 

 Stockton Creek, 128, 143, 441 



Stone Age, 888, 892, 900 



Storks, 768 



Storms, 500 (^50i 



StrJphanthiis, 402, 537, 540, ^28, 988 

 Stuart, Sir Simeon, 298-9, Lists of Illus- 

 tration 5 

 Sudan, general characteristics of the, 493 



Sudanese Negro type, 937 



Suetonius Paulinus (the Roman invader 

 of the Moroccan Sahara), 24 



Sugar, sugar-cane, 60, j6, 103, 412, 666, 

 900 



Sulima River {see also Makona), 197, 242, 

 268, 437, 486 



Sunsets on the West African Coast, 229 



Superintendents of counties, 234 



Supreme Court, the, 213 



Surf on the coast, 7, 166-7, 185, 504 



Susu people, 941, 1096 



Swedes and Liberia' 102, 114, 228 



Swine, ji6 et seq. 



Switzerland, Swiss, and Liberia, 84, 288-9 



Swords, iioi 



Sylvisorex (shrews), 693 



Syphilis, 980 



Tamasheq, Tawareq [see Libyan), 33 

 Tattooing, 970 et seq., 980-2 

 Teage, H. (Liberian), 199 

 Teeth, mutilations of the, 978 

 Tembi-Kunda, town of, 284, 305 



Temne people and language, 1083, 1092, 



1 105 

 Temperance (abstinence from alcohol), 152 

 Ten, the numeral : word roots for, in 



African language families, 1098 

 Termites ("White Ants"), 672, 751-2, 



849-50, 858, 864 

 Testament, the Old, 356-8 ; the New, 362 

 Thelphiisa, 842 



Thomas, Mr. Oldfield, 717-8, 739 

 Thrushes, 783 

 Thrynomys rodent, 697-9 

 ThunBergia, 540, 638 

 Tige or Nipwe River, 478 

 Tiger cat. See Golden cat 

 Timber in Liberia, 422, 542 

 Tin, 514 



Tines, T. (Liberian), 137, 139 

 Titanodamen, 844 

 Titler, Ephraim (Liberian), 199 

 Toads, 822 et seq. 

 Toasts drunk at dinner of July 4th, 1825, 



145 

 Tobacco in Liberia, 100, 398, 412, 993 

 Tobakoni, 460 

 Toma or Tuma River or people, 440, 488, 



490, 1020 

 Tomato, 901, 990 

 Tortoises, 820 



Totems, totemism, 1089-90 

 Totokwali, 490 

 Tourmaline, 5 1 8 



Towerson, Captain William, 63, 65-6 

 Townships, 312-4 

 Trade goods in the sixteenth century, 74 



et seq., yj ; in the eighteenth cen- 

 tury, 10 1-2 

 Trade in Liberia, 192, 398 et seq., 424, 



427-8 

 Trade of West African Coast, 65, 70 et 



seq., 102 

 Tragelaphs, Tragelaphus, 728 et seq., 



737-40 

 Transport, means of, 424 et seq. 

 Traveller's tree [Urania), 443-4 

 Travis, H. W., 378 

 Treaties : with Great Britain, (1848) 224, 



(1885) 275 ; with France (1892), 283-4 

 Tristam, Nuno, 38 

 Trumpets, 1013, 1023, 1026 



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