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■of Africa. Perhaps the author may be enabled in subsequent 

 ■editions to extend the scope and usefulness of this present 

 study of Liberia by corrections and additions. 



Lastly, he feels he owes some explanation to his readers 

 outside the limits of Liberia. If in his description of the 

 country and its productions he has stated obvious facts or has 

 illustrated types familiar to men of science or to people who 

 are widely read, he has done so, not with British readers 

 in his thoughts, but in the desire to produce a book which 

 may be primarily useful to untravelled Liberians, especially to 

 those who are as yet unacquainted with the history, the fauna, 

 flora, and anthropology of their own country. 



H. H. Johnston. 



London, 1906. 



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