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LIBERIA 



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By 



SIR HARRY JOHNSTON 



G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.Sc. 



Gold Medallist Royal Geographical, Royal Scottish Geographical, and Zoological Societies 

 Author of " The Uganda Protectorate," " History of the Colonisation of Africa," etc. 



WITH AN APPENDIX ON THE FLORA OF LIBERIA 



By 



DR. OTTO STAFF, F.L.S. 



Principal Assistant, Kew Herbarium 



28 Coloured Illustrations by Sir Harry Johnston 

 24 Botanical Drawings by Miss Matilda Smith 



402 Black and White Illustrations from the Author's Drawings 

 and from Photographs by the Author and others 



22 Maps by Mr. J. W. Addison, Capt. H. D. Pearson, R.E., 

 Lieut. E. W. Cox, R.E., and the Author 



" A more enviable renown England never won — no, not when from the reluctant hand 

 of the throne she wrung the Charter of her liberties, not when beneath the raging waves 

 she sank the Spanish Armada, not even when her power struck down Napoleon — than 

 when the perishing African cried to her and she listened and saved." 



R. R. GuRLEY (one of the founders of Liberia), 



Philadelphia, U.S.A., 1835 



IN TWO VOLUMES 

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London: HUTCHINSON & 

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