West African studies / Mary H. Kingsley ; with illustrations and maps.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introductory -- Sierra Leone and its surroundings -- African characteristics -- Fishing in West Africa -- Fetish -- Schools of fetish -- Fetish and witchcraft -- African medicine -- The witch doctor -- Early trade in West Africa -- French discovery of West Africa -- Commerce in West Africa -- The Crown Colony system -- The Crown Colony system in West Africa -- More of the Crown Colony system -- The clash of cultures -- An alternative plan -- African property -- Appendix I: A short discription of the natives of the Niger Coast Protectorate, with some account of their customs, religion, trade, etc. / by M. le Comte C.N. de Cardi -- Appendix II: A voyage to the African oil rivers twenty-five years ago / by John Harford -- Appendix III: Trade goods used in the early trade with Africa as given by Barbot and other writers of the seventeenth century / by M.H. Kingsley.

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