Index <+- 



KRU race, people, 86, 88, 188, 294-5, 

 886-7, 891 ; physical appearance of, 

 922, 925-6, 932 et seq. ; hairiness, 940, 

 942 ; disposition, 948 ; clothing, 

 957-60 ; skin decoration, 976-8, <;Sj ; 

 the " Kru mark," 972-4, 976 ; muti- 

 lations of the teeth, 978 ; dislike to 

 circumcision, 978-9, 1034 ; diseases 

 of, 981 ; houses, 1005 ; initiation 

 ceremonies, 1029; marriage customs, 

 1042 j' adultery, 1046; death customs, 

 1056, 1058 ; dances of, 1057 ; burial 

 customs, 1 06 1 ; poison ordeals, 1067 

 /. ; witch-doctors, 1072 ; clans 

 and chiefs, 1073-4 



Kru women, 834, 960 



KRTBOYS, 68, (origin of name) 85, 88, 

 (dislike of slavery) 104, no, 166, 

 174, 192, 238, 270-1, 294-7, 444-8, 

 466, 468 



Kullo, Grand and Little, 462 



Kusimanse (Crossarchus), 704 



Kwara (Mandingo), 239 



Kwia (or Kwoya) people, 86, 88, 926, 972 



Labouchere, Right Hon. Henry, 224 



Laing, Major, 140 



Lancashire : cabin boy from, in the slave 



trade, 163 ; merchants, 241 

 Land crabs, 842 



Landolphia, 400, 41."', 616 et seq., 669 

 Languages : of Liberia and Africa, 1091 et 



seq., noo; unclassified, 1105 

 Lankester, E. Ray, 766 

 Laterite, 2 i ; 

 Lawrence, J., 137 

 Laws, administration of, among native 



tribes, 1073-5 

 Leeches, 842, 863 



-LATL'RI: of Liberia, 207, 215, 311 



Lemurs, 684 ct seq., 6X7, 711 



Leopard, the, 90, 700-1, 998, 10X2, 10X4 



et seq. 

 Lecpard's tooth the sign of gentility, 



1003, n>7'>, [0X2 

 Lchidnptct'ci, sec Butterllics 

 Lewis. J. N. (I.ihcrian), 199 

 I eyden (I lollaml 



" Liberia " as a name, an idea, 130, 142, 



202, 220 



" Liberia " (the journal ; formerly " Afri- 

 can Repository "), 229 



LIBERIA : general description of, 1-12 ; 

 coast-line, 6 ; ancient history of, 13 

 et seq., 28 ; Agri beads in L., 22 ; 

 the Portuguese and L., 40-53, 228 ; 

 L. and the pepper trade, 59 et seq. ; 

 the English and L., 65-9, 102, 107 ; 

 early civilisation of L., 71 et seq., 

 1 10 ; the Dutch and L., 83 et seq. (see 

 Dutch) ; the French and L., 95- 

 102, 186-7, J 94, 227, 237-8, 280-1, 

 311, 338, 472; America and L., 126, 

 192, 194, 228-9,245, 247, 275, 381 ; 

 L. and the slave trade, 104 et seq., 107, 

 148-9, 151, 159 ; foundation of L. by 

 United States, 126 et seq., 132, 158, 

 195 ; purchase-price of the nucleus 

 of L. in 1821, 129 ; the dealings of the 

 British with L., 131, 139, 140, 194, 

 226-9, 268 et seq., 277 et seq ; L. saved 

 by " Prince Regent," 140 ; receives 

 its name, 142 ; first constitution of 

 L., 150; wars with natives, 152 et 

 seq. ; extension of territory in 1835, 

 156; second constitution, 158; ex- 

 clusion of non-Africans, 1 59 ; popula- 

 tion in 1838, 1 60 ; extinction of 

 slave trade, 173-6 ; population in 

 1840, 183 ; last white administrator 

 of L,, 185 ; L. and interior chiefs 

 and coast extensions, 187-8 ; first 

 census, 191 ; population in 1843, 191 ; 

 independence of L., 195 et seq. ; third 

 constitution of 1847, 203 ; citizenship 

 in L., 216 ; flag and national colours 

 of L., 218-20 ; recognition as Sove- 

 reign State, 223 ; acquisition of 

 Gallinhas territories, 226-7 '< area 

 and condition of L. in 1848, 228 ; 

 L. annexes Maryland, 233-4 ; frontier 

 difficulties with England, 240 et seq., 

 2oX 9; frontiers proposed in 1X70, 

 254; the loan of 1871, 250 et seq. ; 

 the revolution of 1871, 261-2 ; last 

 immigration (1877) in numbers from 

 America, 274 ; L. joins Postal I'nion 

 and creates Order of Chivalry, 274 ; 

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