CONTENTS. IX 



of Morrison— Kingdom of Yarriba— Eyeo— Kiama— Wawa— Bonssa— 

 Particulars respecting Park— Nyffee—Koolfu—Zaria—Kano— Siege of 

 Cooriia— Violent Conduct of Sultan Bello— Sickness and Death of 

 Clapperton at Sackatoo — His Servant Lander returns, partly by a 

 new Route — Laing's Expedition— He reaches Timbuctoo— Assassi- 

 nated— (..'aillife undertakes a Journey — Reaches Jenne — Timbuctoo— 

 Aroau— The Desert— Arrival ai Tangier 170 



CHAPTER XIV. 



WESTERN AFRICA. 



General View of this Coast— Dahomey ; Norris and M'Leod— Foota 

 Jallo ; Watt and Winterbotioni- Ashantee ; Embassies of Bowdich 

 and Dupuis ; War- Adams' Account of Benin and Waree 197 



CHAPTER XV. 



SOUTHERN AND KASTKRN AFRICA. 



The Cape— Settlement of the Dutch— Kolben— Hope, Sparrman, Le Vail- 

 lant— Barrow ; Caffres ; Bosjesmans — Trutter and Sommerville — Dr, 

 Cowan and his Party — TheirAssassination—Lichtenstein— Campbell's 

 (the Missionary) First and Second Journeys — Burchell — Thompson — 

 Invasion of the Mantatees— Zoolas 207 



CHAPTER X\l. 



SOCIAL CONDITION OF AFRICA. 



Distinction between Native and Foreign Tribes— Natives — Agricnlture 

 — Manufactures — Trade — Domestic Accommodations — Intellectual . 

 Character— Superstitions— War and Slavery — Some amiable Fea- 

 tures — Forms of Government— Foreign Races — Mohammedan Con- 

 verts — European Colonization — Cape of Good Hope — Albany District 

 - Sierra Leone 221 



CHAPTER XVn. 



GEOLOGY OF AFRICA. 



Form and Situation of Africa— Its great Natural Regions or Divisions.— 

 1. (ieology of the Atlas or Northern Region— Age of the Atlas Moun- 

 tains.— 2. Geology of the Sahara Region— Subterranean Villages near 

 Tripoli ; in Spain and France— Tertiary Rocks of Benioleed — Soudan 

 or Black Mountains— Petrified Wood in the Desert — Horrid Conse- 

 quences of the Slave-trade — Human Skeletons in the Desert — Natron 

 and Salt Lakes— Desert of Bilma— Sultan of Fezzan and a Slave — On 

 what Formation does the Sand of the Desert rest ?— Description of a 

 Trona or Natron Lake — Fulgurite and native Meteoric Iron in the 

 Desert— Observations on the Sand of th<^ Desert— Moving Pillars of 

 Sand — Sand-wind — How the prevailing Winds aiTect the Sand of the 

 Desert— What is the Geognosfical Age of the Sahara?— 3. Geology 

 of the Region to the South of the Sahara, and to the North of the 

 Great Table-land— African Gold.— 4. Geology of the Gre;it Table-land 

 of Africa — Geology of the Coast from Sierra Leone to Cape Negro — 

 Cape of Good HopeDistrict— Distribution of its Chains of Mountains, 

 Plains and Valleys, or Kloofs— Description of the Karroo Plains — 



