COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOL. I 



FROM THE AUTHOR'S PAINTINGS 



NO. TITLE. 



1. A Mandingo Frontispiece 



2. Malagueta pepper: leaves, seed-pod, and flowers {A/ramomitm 



mclegueta) ........... To face p. 58 



3. The Shield, Emblems, and Motto of Liberia as established in 1847 . ,, 218 



4. The Flag of Liberia .......... „ 220 



5. The Shield and Emblem of Liberia as they might be ... . „ 222 



6. President J. J. Roberts (painted from a photograph taken about 1871) „ 264 



7. A Liberian homestead .......... „ 346 



8. A Mandingo in blue cotton robe ........ „ 356 



.9. The Red-headed Guinea-fowl {Agelastes nteleagroides) ... „ 370 



10. A Liberian stream in the short dry season ...... „ 436 



11. The Ytllow-flowered Musssenda with white sepals, so common in the 



Liberian bush (Musswnda conopharyngijolia) .... ,, 45^ 



12. The Hoffmann River, Cape Palmas ....... ,, 472 



