ERRATA AND ADDENDA

On pages 462 and 463 the alternative (native) name of the River Cestos should be Nipwe. The phrase should read, not "Cess or Cestos," but "Cestos or Nipwe."

On pages 762-3 the bird referred to as the "Red" Phalarope should be styled "Grey" (according to Mr. Chubb). The same correction should be made in the further description of this bird on page 790.

On page 790 "Butler" should be read as "Buller," and (on bottom line) "tertiaries feathers" as "tertiary feathers."

On the top line of page 791 the word "margins" should be inserted after "brown"; on the third line of the same page the phrase “becoming grey towards their tips" should read "becoming darker towards the tips." In the eighth and ninth lines, “becoming streaked with grey and white" should read "becoming streaked with white.” On page 792 the record of the bird "Lampribis splendida, Salvadori Ibis; 1903, p. 184 (Liberia) "should be inserted next to Hagedashia hagedash, etc." On the same page "Büttikofer" and not "Du Bus" should be given as the authority for Ibis olivacea. On page 799 "Hengl." should be corrected to " Heugl." and "Cub." to "Cab." On page 800 "CampephagidÆ” should read “CampOPHAGIDÆ.”

On page 802 the Vol. of the British Museum Catalogue quoted in reference to Cisticola should be VII., and not XII. On page 804, in line 10, "Coliopasser" should read "Coliuspasser."

Throughout these lists of birds "Rupp." stands for "Rüpp." and "Mull." for "Müll.”

VI. THE GUINEA TRADE IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH

CENTURIES

VII. A DUTCH ACCOUNT OF LIBERIA IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

VIII. THE SLAVE TRADE

IX. THE FOUNDING OF LIBERIA .

X. THE LAST PHASE OF THE SLAVE TRADE

XI. GOVERNORS OF LIBERIA.

XII. INDEPENDENCE

XIII. PRESIDENT ROBERTS

XIV. FRONTIER QUESTIONS

XV. THE LOAN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

XVI. RECENT HISTORY.

XVII. THE AMERICO-LIBERIANS

APPENDIX I. Americo-Liberian Population

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COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOL. I

FROM THE AUTHOR'S PAINTINGS

NO.

TITLE.

I. A Mandingo.

Frontispiece

2.

Malagueta pepper: leaves, seed-pod, and flowers (Aframomum melegueta)

To face p. 58

3. The Shield, Emblems, and Motto of Liberia as established in 1847

5. The Shield and Emblem of Liberia as they might be

6. President J. J. Roberts (painted from a photograph taken about 1871)

10.

.9. The Red-headed Guinca-fowl (Agelastes meleagroides)

A Liberian stream in the short dry season

11. The Yellow-flowered Mussænda with white sepals, so common in the

Liberian bush (Mussænda conopharyngifolia)

14.

12

15

19

The British village of Gene (River Mano) (Photograph by Mr. Cecil H.
from the Liberian shore

Firmin
Drawing by the Author.
Photograph by Mr. T.H.Myring

95

37. Mermaid Island on the St. Paul's River, re-
sorted to by European traders in the Photograph by Sir Simeon
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

38. A Dē man, aboriginal native of Mesurado
district, described by Des Marchais.

39. A (native) De kitchen near Monrovia (as described by Des Marchais in the early eighteenth century)

Stuart

Photograph by the Author

Photograph by Sir Simeon

Stuart

(Photograph by Mr. Cecil H.
Firmin

(Photograph by the late Mr.
Sam. Hall

Photograph by the Author

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99

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103

Mr.

Photograph by the Author

131

133

Photograph by the Author

Photograph by Mr. Cecil H.
Firmin

45. Jehudi Ashmun, the founder of Liberia (from
the portrait in Gurley's Life of Ashmun) Drawing by the Author.

46. Vicinity of site of first stockade on Cape Mesu-
rado (town of Monrovia in the distance)

47. Last rapids of St. Paul's River twenty miles from its mouth

48. "Vai Town," on Mesurado Lagoon, nearly opposite Monrovia, once a famous locality for shipping slaves

49. St. Paul's River above last rapids, near site of

Elijah Johnson's fight with Chief Brumley. Photograph by Mr. T. H. Myring 153