-♦) Index 



Spirits of the departed, belief in, 1063, 



1068 

 Spondias lutea fruit, 591, 992 

 Spoons, 990, ID 10 

 Squirrels, 695 et seq. 

 Stachytarpheta, 542, 642, 988 

 Stampfli, F. X., xvi, 290, 738, 787 

 Staff, Dr. Otto, title-page, vii, 521, 570 



ef seq. 

 Starlings, metallic, 783 

 Steamers on the West African Coast, 184, 



240, 293 

 Stevens, Mr. J. C. (Liberian), 266 

 Stick insects (Phasmidm), 849, 862 

 Sting rays (Trygon), 831 

 Stockfish (fish for trade), 398 

 Stockton, Captain R. F., 128, 441 

 Stockton Creek, 128, 143, 441 

 Stone Age, 888, 892, 900 

 Storks, 768 

 Storms, 500 



Strop hanthus, 402, 537, 540, 528, 988 

 Stuart, Sir Simeon, '298-9, Lists of Illus- 

 trations 

 Sudan, general characteristics of the, 493 

 Sudanese Negro type, 937 

 Suetonius Paulinus (the Roman invader 



of the Moroccan Sahara), 24 

 Sugar, sugar-cane, 60, 76, 103, 412, 666, 



900 

 Sulima River {see also Makona), 197, 242, 



268, 437, 486 

 Sunsets on the West African Coast, 229 

 Superintendents of counties, 234 

 Supreme Court, the, 213 

 Surf on the coast, 7, 166-7, 185, 504 

 Susu people, 941, 1096 

 Swedes and Liberia, 102, 114, 228 

 Swine, 716 et seq. 



Switzerland, Swiss, and Liberia, 84, 288-9 

 Swords, iioi 

 Sylvisorex (shrews), 693 

 Syphilis, 980 



Tamasheq, Tawareq (see Libyan), 33 

 Tattooing, 970 et seq., 980-2 

 Teage, H. (Liberian), 199 

 Teeth, mutilations of the, 978 

 Tembi-Kunda, town of, 284, 305 



Temne people and language, 1083, 1092, 



1 105 

 Temperance (abstinence from alcohol), 152 

 Ten, the numeral : word roots for, in 



African language families, 1098 

 Termites ("White Ants"), 672, 751-2, 



849-50, 858, 864 

 Testament, the Old, 356-8 ; the New, 362 

 Thelphusa, 842 



Thomas, Mr. Oldfield, 717-8, 739 

 Thrushes, 783 

 Thrynotnys rodent, 697-9 

 Thunbergia, 540, 638 

 Tige or Nipwe River, 478 

 Tiger cat. See Golden cat 

 Timber in Liberia, 422, 542 

 Tin, 514 



Tines, T. (Liberian), 137, 139 

 Titanodamen, 844 

 Titler, Ephraim (Liberian), 199 

 Toads, 822 et seq. 

 Toasts drunk at dinner of July 4th, 1825, 



145 

 Tobacco in Liberia, 100, 398, 412, 993 

 Tobakoni, 460 

 Toma or Tuma River or people, 440, 488, 



490, 1020 

 Tomato, 901, 990 

 Tortoises, 820 

 Totems, totemism, 1089-90 

 Totokwali, 490 

 Tourmaline, 518 



Towerson, Captain William, 63, 65-6 

 Townships, 312-4 

 Trade goods in the sixteenth century, 74 



et seq., 77 ; in the eighteenth cen- 

 tury, 101-2 

 Trade in Liberia, 192, 398 et seq., 424, 



427-8 

 Trade of West African Coast, 65, 70 et 



seq., 102 

 Tragelaphs, Tragelaphus, 728 et seq., 



72,7-AO 

 Transport, means of, 424 et seq. 

 Traveller's tree (Urania), 443-4 

 Travis, H. W., 378 

 Treaties: with Great Britain, (1848)224, 



(1885) 275 ; with France (1892), 283-4 

 Tristam, Nuno, 38 

 Trumpets, 1013, 1023, 1026 



