^ The Slave Trade 



of Dr. S. Koelle, of the Church Missionary Society, revealed 

 the existence at Sierra Leone, amongst the freed slaves, of 

 natives of East and South-east Africa, of Nyasaland, of the 

 Lualaba or Upper Congo, Tanganyika, and the greater part 

 of the Congo Basin ; of Bornu, Wadai, the Shari, the Benue, 



42. STREET IN SIERRA LEONE (1905) 



all parts of the Niger, and nearly every country on the West 

 Coast of Africa from Cape Blanco to Angola. 



Negroes among Negroes are very clannish. So far as each 

 Negro could pick up a fellow-tribesman, these Negro colonists 

 at Sierra Leone banded together, Congos with Congos, Ibos with 

 Ibos, and so forth, hating each other far more than they may 

 have disliked the white men. Then of course there was the 

 abundant native population of what is now the Colony and 



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