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Tsetse fly, 853 



Tuhulidentala, 747 



Turks, the, 80. 86, 105 



Turner Peninsula, 242 



Turtle: hawksbill, green, 819; leathery, 



819, 820 

 Twins, customs regarding, 1050 

 Typhlops (burrowing snakes), 812 



Uganda, 77<>-7. 781 



Ungulates, primitive markings of, 719-20, 

 733 ; toes of, 722 el seq. 



Union Mining Company, 286, 299, 300 



" United Brothers of Friendship," 390-2 



United States of America : and the slave 

 trade, 113, 125, 171 ; and Liberia, 

 126 et seq., 143, 154, 183, 192, 194, 

 200, 228-9, 245, 247, 275, 381 



Vrobotrya, 587, 589 



Uso di Mare (Genoese captain), 38 



Vai alphabet, 230 



Vai country, 89, 90, 441 



Vai language, 89, 727, 1096, 1107; 

 alphabet, 1107 et seq., 1115, 1116 et 

 seq. ; writing, 1 126 ei seq. 



Vai people, 42, 86, 87, 91, no, 727, 886, 

 893, 921 ; skin colour, 940 ; dis- 

 position, 944 et seq. ; resemble the 

 Baganda, 947 ; clothes, 962 ; Vai 

 women and silver ornaments, 970, 

 975 ; skin decoration and tattooing, 

 972, 976, 980 ; cultivation of maize, 

 1002 ; houses, 1006 ; initiation 

 schools, 1029-30 et seq., 1033, 1036 ; 

 and circumcision, 1034 ; death and 

 burial customs, 1058 ; magic, 1064 ; 

 folklore, 1085 ; history, 1096 ; the 

 Vai a branch of the Mandingo race, 

 1096 ; their alphabet described by 

 Lieut. Forbes, 1107 et seq. • their 

 character according to Koelle, 1112 ; 

 devotion to their own alphabet and 

 letter-writing, 1114 



Varanus, 8 1 5 



Vaya people, 886 



Velvet, 970 



Venice, Venetian, 22, 27, 38, 55, 77 



Verde,' Cape, 35, 38, 71 



Verde, Cape, Islands, 142-3 



Vice-president of Liberia, 211 



Victoria, Queen, 227, 276 



" Victoria " (German gunboat), 272 



Villages, native, 995-7, 999-1001, 1003 



Viner, Mr. Conrad, x, 1079, 1082 



Vipers in Liberia, 807 et seq. 



Virginia, U.S.A., 185 



Vogel, Dr. Theodor, 570 



Vukka Hills, 494 



Vulture, fishing (Gypohierax), 452, 670-1, 



773-4 

 Vultures, 784 



Wadstrom, Carl Berns (Swedish writer), 



114, 115 et seq., 170 

 Wallis, Captain Braithwaite (British 



Consul), 381 

 Wappo, Wapi. Kru Coast, 84, 468 

 Warner, D. B. (President). 248, 258, 395 

 Washington, Bushrod, see Bushrod 

 Washington City, U.S.A., 126 

 Washington, General, 125 

 Washington, George (Liberian), 137 

 Wasps, 854-5 



Water chevrotain. See Chevrotain 

 Water lilies, 468, 528, 576 

 Water tree, the (Tetrpxera), 256, 273 

 Wauwermans, Colonel (Belgian writer on 



Liberia), xv, 143, 280, 289 

 Weapons, native, 68, 1024, 1026 

 Weaver birds (" Palm birds "), 783-4 

 Weaving, the art of, 1016-7 et seq., 1022 

 Webster, Josiah (Liberian), 137 

 Wesley, John (the great preacher), 113 

 Wesleyans, the, 1 1 2-3 

 West Africa, 22, 59, 70 ; commerce with, 

 sixteenth century, 74 et seq. ; alcohol 

 in, 76, 173-4; and the slave trade, 

 106 et seq., 161 et seq. ; steamers and 

 West Africa, 184 ; rainfall, 501-3 ; 

 forest region of, 521 et seq. ; flora of, 

 522 ; domestic animals and history 

 of, 900-20, 931 et seq. 

 West African College (Methodist Episco- 

 pal), 384-8 

 West African Gold Concessions, Limited, 

 300 



