Black and White Illustrationsjn_VoL^ 



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TITLE. 



A Portuguese sea captain of the sixteenth 

 century. Drawn from a Benin carving in 

 the British Museum . 



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27. A native of Sino 



28. Borasstis flabellifer . 



29. Kru canoes 



Drawing by the Author . 

 (Photograph by the late Mr.\ . 

 • y Sam. Hall. J ^ 



Photograph by the Author 

 Photograph by Mr. T. H. Myring 



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Drawing by the Author. 



" The Mandingo robe of stoutly woven cotton ' : ( photograph taken by order of 



group of Kondo people from behind Vai - uberian Government 



country I 



The Caravela redonda or round caravel (from 



Revista Colonial of Lisbon) .... 



A Caravel ....... 



A Caravel (? of Genoa), fifteenth century : 



After Jurien de la Graviere 

 A Portuguese warrior, sixteenth century. 



From a Benin carving in the British 



Museum ....... 



Dutch sailing vessel of seventeenth century. 

 After Levinus Hulsius .... 



Dutch seamen of the early seventeenth century 

 landing on the West African coast. After 

 Levinus Hulsius. .... 



Mermaid Island on the St. Paul's River, re 

 sorted to by European traders in the 

 eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 



A De man, aboriginal native of Mesurado 

 district, described by Des Marchais . 



A (native) De kitchen near Monrovia (as de 

 scribed by Des Marchais in the early 

 eighteenth century) 



A mangrove thicket 



A native of the Kru coast 



A street in Sierra Leone (1905) 



Fura Bay Road, Freetown 



Photograph by Sir Simeon I 

 Stuart j 



Photograph by the Author 



J Photograph by Sir Simeon [^ 

 I Stuart I 



(Photograph by Mr. Cecil H.\ 

 \^ Firmin J 



(Photograph by the late Mr.^ 

 y Sam. Hall j 



Photograph by the Author 



f Photograph by Mr. Cecil H.\ 

 \ Firmin j 



Photograph by the Author 



Providence or Perseverance Island in Mesu 

 rado Lagoon 



Jehudi Ashmun, the founder of Liberia (from 



the portrait in Gurley's Life of Ashmun) Drawing by the Author . 

 46. Vicinity of site of first stockade on Cape Mesu- 

 rado (town of Monrovia in the distance) . Photograph by the Author 



Last rapids of St. Paul's River twenty miles 



from its mouth Photograph by Mr.T.H. Myring 



"Vai Town," on Mesurado Lagoon, nearly f _, , , , , r\ 



opposite Monrovia, once a famous locality \ Photograph taken by order of\ 

 for shipping slaves . . Ltberian Government j 



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St. Paul's River above last rapids, near site of 



Elijah Johnson's fight with Chief Brumley . Photograph by Mr. T.H. Myring 1 53 



