I ndex <*- 



Sesters or Sestro, Grand, 51. i8», 195, 283, 



468, 470 

 Setra Kru, 51, 195, 468 

 Sewa River, 241-2, 246 

 Sexual intercourse, 1040 et seq., 1048, 



1051 

 Sexual mysteries, initiations, 1032 et seq. 

 Seyes, the Rev. Mr., 184 

 Seymoreand Ash (Liberian explorers), 239 

 Shaftesbury, the great Earl of (Lord 



Ashley), 226 

 Sharks, 166, 747, 830-1 

 Sharpe, Miss E. M., ix, 872 et seq. 

 Shaw, J. (Liberian), 137 

 Sheep, domestic, 900, 913-20; origin of, 



918-20 

 Shelf ord. Mr. Frederick, 501 

 Sheppard Lake (disaster), 233, 476 

 Sherbro Island and country, 18, 40, 126, 



242 

 Sherman, Gen. R. A. (Liberian), 261, 263, 



273, 286 

 Shields, 1024-6 

 Ship on Liberian shield, 220 

 Ships: of the early West African navi- 

 gators, 77 et seq. ; slave, 176 

 Shipwreck on the Kru Coast, 240, 249, 



270-3- 350-2 

 Shrews (Insectivores), 693 

 Shufeldt, Commodore, 245 

 Sierra Leone, 30, 38-9, 48, 57, 1 14 e< seq., 



122, 126 et seq., 168, 193, 234, 241 et 



seq., 427, 432, 500-1, 1079 

 Sierra Leone Company, i\$ et seq., 122 

 Sikoil (Sikombe) country, language, or 



people, 462, 498, 502, 509 et seq., 976, 



1042, 1056, 1061, 1066-8, 1081, 1099, 



1 1 36, 1 1 38 et seq. 

 Sino, River and County, 51, 63, 84, 156 



el seq., 208, 217, 372, 464 et seq., 467-9, 



522, 571 

 Sintra, Pedro de (or Cintra), 39 et seq., 43 

 Sircnia, the, 744 ; origin of, 746 

 " Siruku," the (a terrible unknown 



carnivore), 706-7 

 " Sisters of the Mysterious Ten," 390 

 Six children at a birth, 1051 

 Skin-colour, 938 et seq. 

 Skin decoration, practice of, 976-8 

 Skinner, Dr., i;6 



Skins used for clothing, 956, 1016 



Slavery, Slaves, 62, 104 et seq. ; com- 

 parative merits of European nations 

 as slave-holders, 1 1 1 ; repatriation of 

 slaves, 114 et seq., 158 ; demand for 

 slaves in tropical America in early 

 nineteenth century, 161 ; maltreat- 

 ment of, 172 et seq. ; slavery abolished 

 by Liberian Constitution, 204 ; slavery 

 and the condition of slaves amongst 

 the indigenes, 1056, 1079 et seq. ; slave 

 towns, 108 1 



Slave Trade, 62, 105 et seq. ; denounced, 

 112; slave ships, 115, 161; cruelty of, 

 11$ et seq., 147, 161, jy2 et seq. ; with 

 the United States, 171 ; with Sierra 

 Leone at the present day, 108 1-2 



Sleeping sickness, the, 230, 981, 986, 1114 



Slings, 1015, 1024 



Smallpox, 90, 172, 274 



Smeathman, Dr. Henry, 114 



Smeathmannia, 536, 606 



Smith, E. (Liberian), 137 



Smith, Miss Matilda, ix, 351 



Smith, William (eighteenth century travel- 

 ler), 108 



Smuggling, 339, 350 



Snails, 839-40, 861 



Snake worship, 1064 



Snakes : poisonous, 807 et seq. ; burrow- 

 ing, 812 ; boine, 812-3 



Snelgrave (eighteenth-century English 

 slave-trader), 102, 108 



Snoek, John (Dutch traveller), 91 



Soap, 952 



Societies, secret, among the Grebo, 1077 

 et seq. 



Sokwalla, Chief, 91 



Somerset, James, 112 



Sorghum (Holcus, Durrha), 492, 666, 900, 

 990 



Sour sop, the, 527, 992 



Spain, Spaniards, 34, 48, yy, 102, 106, 148, 

 169 171 



Sparidce, 829 



Sparmann (naturalist), 115 



Spencer, Thomas (Liberian), 137 



Spider, the, in African folklore, 1084 et seq. 



Spiders, 844-6, 863 



Spinach, 996 



180 



