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INDEX 
Portuguese influence, 70 
Potassium, bromide of, 37, 47 
Potatoes, 5, 70, 15 1 
Prices, 137 
Prices of medicine, 67 
Products, food, 98 
Protestant Mission, nineteenth 
century, 8 
Protestant missions, the, 165 
Punishment, native, 75 
Pyorrhoea, 55 
Quinine, 37, 56, 90 
Raft building, 102 
Railway, Belgian-Congo, 8 
Rambaud, Mr., 64 
Raspberry disease, 87 
Rheumatism, 53, 80 
Rice, 5 
River navigation, 22—26, 41 
River N’Gomje, 70 
River Ogowe, 2, 23 
Roads, forest, 121, 122 
Robert, Mr., 131 
Rosewood, 109 
Rousseau, 155 
Routine of hospital (temporary), 
32, 33 
Rubber, 4 
Rynchoprion penetrans, 86 
Salol, 37 
Samkita, 8, 71 
Sandfleas, 86 
Sangunagenta, 87 
Scabies (itch), 36 
School, the Mission, 121, 129, 163 
Schools, mission, 158 
Sciatica, 80 
Scopolamin, 47 
Scorpions, 143 
Senegambia, 16 
Serval, Lieutenant, 7 
Skulls (for fetishes), 51 
Slavery, 6, 69 
Sleeping sickness, 36, 62, 78, 
81 ; and medical science, 82 ; 
cause of, 79 ; conveyance of, 
83 ; nature of, 83 ; symp- 
toms of, 80 
Sleeping Sickness Institute, 85 
Snakes, 72 
Stanley, 98 
Stations and personnel of mis- 
sions, 8 
Stilling, Professor, 146 
Strohl, Professor, 148 
Subcutaneous injection of chaul- 
moogra oil, 89 
Sunstroke, 58, 59 
Superstition, native, 65, 155 
Symptoms of sleeping sickness, 
80 
Tabou, 20 
Talagouga, 8, 71 
Taxation of natives, 114 
Teeth, 55, 148 
Teneriffe, 13 
Termites, 142 
Thymol, 55 
Timber, export of, 108 ; trade, 
4 > 5> 25, 94—100 ; felling 
and transport of, 95 — 10 1 ; 
varieties of, 108 
Tobacco, 49, 54, 96, 1 14 
Traveller ant, 143 
Treatment of animals at Dakar, 
17 
Trees, 39 
Tropical medicine, 16 
Trypanosomata, 82 
Tsetse fly, 42 
Tumours, 55 
Ulcers, 86, 146 
Unreliability, native, 29, 63, 135 
Vanilla, 4 
Varieties of timber, 108 
Village, native, 24, 43 
Virgin forest, the, 23, 39 
War, 136 ; influence of, 167 ; 
native attitude towards, 138, 
151 
Weaver bird, 72 
West African harbours, 20 
Whooping-cough, 52 
Wife-purchase, 76, 128 
Women, diseases of, 55 
Women’s labour, 63 
Yam, 70 
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