-#5 Bibliography 



by Hugh Murray. It is an interesting resum^ of what was known about 

 Western and Central Africa at the beginning of the nineteenth century. 



Article on " Slavery " in EncyclopcBdia Bn'tajtnica, 9th edition. — An 

 admirable review, containing allusions to an exhaustive bibliography. 



II. History of the State of Liberia since its Foundation in 1822 



The Life of Jehudi Ashmun, by the Rev. Ralph Randolph Gurley,. 

 Washington, 1835. — Describes the foundation of Liberia. 



Report of the Rev. R. R. Giirley on Liberia (United States State Paper), 

 Washington, 1850. 



The African Liepository, 1S25 to 1892. — From 1892 onwards the organ 

 of the American Colonisation Society was named Liberia. The African 

 Repository and Liberia together constitute a kind of quarterly chronicle of 

 events in and connected with Liberia for a period of something like eighty 

 years. 



Twenty Years of an African Slave-trader, by Captain Theodore Canot, 

 London, 1854. — This work, which was published by George Routledge at 

 eighteen-pence, is one of quite extraordinary interest, and it is surprising 

 that it has not been republished for those who like tales of adventure. 

 Some proportion of it may be fiction, but much of that which relates to 

 Liberia is substantially true, except the story of Governor Findlay's death,^ 

 which is untrue. 



Wanderings in West Africa by an F.R.G.S. (the late Sir Richard 

 Burton, K.C.M.G.), London, 1862. 



The African Sketch-book, by Winwood Reade, London, 1873. 



Liberia : Histoire de la Fondation d'un Etat negre libre, by Colonel 

 Wauwermans, Brussels, 1885. — An excellent compilation of the history of 

 Liberia as a Negro republic, with a good deal of interesting matter regarding 

 the frontier dispute with Great Britain. 



LListory of the Colofiisation of Africa by Alien Liaces, by Sir Harry 

 Johnston, 3rd edition, Cambridge, 1905. — This little work gives a 

 general history of European enterprise in West Africa. 



The Story of Africa and its Explorers, vols. i. and iv. by the late 

 Dr. Robert Brown, M.A., London, 1892 (Cassell & Co.). — An excellent 

 history of African discovery. 



The Map of Africa by Treaty, by Sir Edward Hertslet, K.C.B. (Librarian 

 to the Foreign Office), London, 1894. 



III. Biology, Anthropology, etc. 



Lieisebilder aus LJberia, 2 vols., by J. Biittikofer, Leyden, 1890. — -This- 

 is the great work on Liberia, gathering up all the knowledge of the country 

 which existed in 1890. A good deal of the book is of permanent value. 



