Chapter II: Appendix: Sierra Leone (expenditure, Loans, Exports, &c.) 355

GOLD COAST (EXPENDITURE, LOANS, EXPORTS, &C.) 356

LAGOS (EXPENDITURE, LOANS, EXPORTS, &C.) 359

DAHOMEY (COMPARATIVE TABLE OF DUTIES) 360

THE DAHOMEY RAILWAY 362

FRENCH GUINEA RAILWAY 364

WEST AFRICAN MAHOGANY TRADE 365

THE GOLD COAST MINING INDUSTRY 367

BRITISH POSSESSIONS IN WEST AFRICA (POPULATION AND AREA) 370

THE RABINEK CASE 371

INDEX 373

ILLUSTRATIONS

_On Fishing Bent, Southern Nigeria_ _Frontispiece_

_Facing page_

*_A Pure-bred Kano Man (Hausa)_ 54

*_A Hausa from Yola_ 56

_Hausa Loom and Spool_ 62

_Hausas Drilling_ 68

_Making Palm-oil_ 74

_Duke-Town, Old Calabar, Southern Nigeria_ 76

_Filling Palm-oil Barrels, Southern Nigeria_ 78

_A Palm-kernel Market in Southern Nigeria_ 80

_A Mohammedan Chief and his Standard-Bearer_ 100

_Mandingo Muslims_ 106

_A Baobab—The Giant of West African Flora_ 116

_Washing Rubber_ 122

_Fulani Sword_ 126

*_Pure-bred Fulani Girl, Adamawa_ 128

_Fulani Chief, Futa-Jallon_ 130

_Half-caste Fulani Girl, Futa-Jallon_ 134

_Low-caste Fulani, Western Sudan_ 136

_Pure-bred Fulani Girl, Futa-Jallon_ 140

_Fulani House, Futa-Jallon_ 142

_Fulani Cattle-pen_ 146

_A Half-caste Fulani Girl and a Susu_ 148

_The Idle Native! Market Scene in West Africa_ 176

_West African “Young Hopefuls”_ 180

_An Ibo Family Group, Southern Nigeria_ 186

_Travelling on the Niger in the Dry Season_ 196

_Felling a Mahogany-tree_ 202

_Squaring the Tree_ 202

_Dragging the Squared Log through the Bush_ 204

_Sapelli, Southern Nigeria’s principal Timber Port_ 204

_A Susu Mallam_ 218

_Fulani Mallam_ 228

_Susu Chief and Staff_ 278

_Ashanti Field Force at Cape Coast ~en route~ for Kumasi_ 280

_Return of Ashanti Field Force_ 282

_The Victim of a Rubber Raid_ 334

MAPS

_Northern Part of Africa_ 38

_Northern Nigeria_ 84

_Sketch Map showing Harbour Improvement Scheme, Ivory Coast_ _page_ 273

_Photographs marked thus * are reproduced from “Adamawa” by kind permission of Mr. Ernst Vohsen (Dietrich Reimer). The author is indebted (through the kindness of a friend) to Dr. Maclaud, of the French Guinea Administration, for several of the photographs here reproduced._