i8 FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA. 



the Ifes, Modakekes, Jebus (tribes around Lagos), it 

 has brought within its meshes. It has spasmodically 

 continued since, but has of late applied to a smaller 

 area. 



Worthless intrigue gave way at last to the exercise 

 of common sense, and action, at the instance of the 

 parties concerned, was in March, last year, directed 

 inland by the Government of Lagos towards the 

 general restoration of order to the Interior, which has 

 fortunately resulted in the conclusion of a treaty of 

 peace, friendship, and commerce among the contending 

 parties ; in the breaking up of the two hostile camps 

 of Kiji and Oke Mesi, and in the dispersion of the 

 armies that occupied for years those camps ; and, 

 thereby, in the restoration to agricultural, social and 

 commercial pursuits of several thousands of people 

 (from my messengers, I learnt, some 200,000). 



Within the limits of West Tropical Africa, as defined 

 by Professor Oliver in his ' Flora of Tropical Africa,' 

 lie also the following Foreign European possessions. 



The French possessions are generally represented 

 as Senegambia, Assine and Dabou, Porto Novo and 

 Gaboon, with a returned population in 1878 of 324,038. 



According to ' Notices statistiques sur les Colonies 

 Frangaises, 1883,' the population of the Senegal had 

 increased to 190,789 persons, composed of 90,521 men 

 and 100,268 women and girls, besides having a 

 fluctuating population of 2, 1 3 5 . Of the population of 

 the Gaboon it is said that the nomadic life which the 



