Index 



Port of Entry, I.aw of 1865, 248 



Porters, porterage, native, 425 



Portolano, the Laurentian (old fourteenth- 

 century map of Africa), 35 



Ports of entry, list of, 248, 392-3 



Portugal : in Morocco, 37, 45 et seq. ; 

 influence of, on West African history, 

 45-6 et seq., 52-3. 76, 81, 84, 900-1 



Portuguese, the, 36, 37 et seq., 51-3, 61, 

 69, 76, 81, 342, 900-1 ; language, 49, 

 52, 65 ; names in West African and 

 Liberian geography, 49 et seq. ; and 

 the slave trade, 105 et seq., 162, 171 



Portulaca spinach, 992, 996 



Post Office, Liberian, 322-3 



Postage stamps, 324-5, 327-9 



Potamochcerus pigs, 76, 717-8 



Potatoes, sweet, 990 



Pottery, native, 1003, 1008, loio 



Potto, the, 684-5 



Powney, Lieut.-Col. Cecil, 299, 392 



Prawns, 843, 863 



Prefix languages in West Africa, 1092-4 



Presbyterians, 353 



President of Liberia, 208 ; his powers, 

 210 ; term of office, 218, 331-2 



Presidents of Liberia, 223, 376 



Press in Liberia, 206, 358, 392 



" Prince Regent" (British steamer), 139, 

 140 



Printing presses, 160 



Procavia, 708-9 



Prognathism, 937-8 



Protestant Christianity, 353 



Protopterus, 826 



Prout, Jacob W. (Liberian), 199 



Prout, S. T. (Liberian), 378 



Prout, William A. (Liberian), 233-4 



Providfnce Island, 96, 130-1 



Psettus, 829 



Psiltacus timneh, 777-9 



Pufi adder, Gaboon (Bitis gabonica), 807, 

 809 ; horned (B. nasicornis), 807, 809 



Pumpkins, 1002 



Purchase-price of nucleus of Liberia in 

 1 82 1, 129 



Puritanism in Liberia, 353 



PuTU country, language, and people, 22, 

 466, 499, 501-2, 510, 952, 1099, 1136, 

 iiiS etseq. 



Pycnanthus, 542, 645 



Pye-Smith, Mr. J. M., 90, 717, 763, 787, 



790, 1 1 36 

 Pygmy races, 13, 887 et seq. 

 Pythons, 812-3, 1090 



Quadroon, the, 344, 395 

 " Quail," the (gunboat), 227 

 Quakers and the slave trade, the, iii, 155 

 " Qua-Qua " (Ivory Coast), 85 

 Quartz, 514, 516-7, 519 

 Queen Victoria, 227, 276 

 " Quoja " people (of Dapper), 86 ; see 

 Kwia 



Railey, Colonel J. A. (Liberian), 380, 383 

 Rainfall : in Liberia, 500 et seq ; in West 



Africa, 500-1, 503 

 Rainy season in Liberia, 137-8, 497 

 Ramusio (Italian geographer), quoted, 41 

 Randall, Dr., 143, 146, 151 

 Raphia (see Palm and Piassava), 79, 1015 

 Rask, J. (Danish eighteenth-century 



traveller), 102-3 

 Rats, 696 



Read, Mr. C. H., 22 

 Reade, Winwood, 256-7 

 Red River hog (Potamochcerus), 76, 368, 



716-8, 720 

 " Regina Coeli," case of the, 238 

 Religion in Liberia, 204, 1061 et seq. 

 Religion of the tall hat and frock coat, 



356-7 

 Religiosity of the Americo-Liberians, 353-4 

 Remedies, native, 986-8 

 Repatriation schemes for Negro slaves, 114 



et seq., 275 

 Representatives, House of, 208, 261, 



379. 382 

 Reptiles of Liberia, 807 et seq. 

 Republic of Liberia, 199 et seq. 

 Revenue of Liberia, 335 

 Revolution, the only Liberian, 261 

 " Reynard the Fox," 1084 

 Reynolds, Mr. Harold, 416, 438, 508, 



531. 567, 572. 759. 777. 7^7, 872. et 

 seq., 952 

 Rhektophyllum, 559, 566 



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