West African Studies

About this eBook

Author

Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900

Title

West African studies

Credits

Produced by Clare Boothby, KD Weeks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

DT: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Africa

Subject

Ethnology -- Africa, West

Category

Text

eBook-No.

38870

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38870

Release Date

February 13, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE TO THE READER — FOOTNOTES:
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — FOOTNOTES: — WEST AFRICAN STUDIES
5. 5.INTRODUCTORY
6. 6.SIERRA LEONE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.AFRICAN CHARACTERISTICS — FOOTNOTES:
8. 8.FISHING IN WEST AFRICA. — FOOTNOTES:
9. 9.CHAPTER V.
10. 10.FETISH. — FOOTNOTES:
11. 11.CHAPTER VI
12. 12.SCHOOLS OF FETISH — FOOTNOTES:
13. 13.FETISH AND WITCHCRAFT — FOOTNOTES:
14. 14.AFRICAN MEDICINE — FOOTNOTES:
15. 15.THE WITCH DOCTOR
16. 16.EARLY TRADE IN WEST AFRICA — FOOTNOTES:
17. 17.FRENCH DISCOVERY OF WEST AFRICA — FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.COMMERCE IN WEST AFRICA — FOOTNOTES:
19. 19.THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM — FOOTNOTES:
20. 20.THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM IN WEST AFRICA — FOOTNOTES:
21. 21.MORE OF THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM — FOOTNOTES:
22. 22.THE CLASH OF CULTURES — FOOTNOTES:
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII — FOOTNOTES:
24. 24.AFRICAN PROPERTY — FOOTNOTES:
25. 25.APPENDICES
26. 26.APPENDIX I — A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE NATIVES OF THE NIGER COAST PROTECTORATE, WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THEIR CUSTOMS, RELIGION, TRADE, &c. BY M. le COMTE C. N. de CARDI. — NATIVE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IN BENIN, AND RELIGION — ORIGIN OF THE BENIN CITY PEOPLE — BRASS RIVER — RELIGION — NEW CALABAR — BONNY AND THE PEPPLE FAMILY — ANDONI RIVER AND ITS INHABITANTS. — OPOBO RIVER. — KWO IBO. — OLD CALABAR. — SECRET SOCIETIES AND FESTIVALS IN OLD CALABAR—AND THE COUNTRIES UP THE CROSS RIVER — FOOTNOTES:
27. 27.PART I — A VOYAGE TO THE AFRICAN OIL RIVERS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. BY JOHN HARFORD — TRADING IN THE CAMEROONS
28. 28.PART II — PIONEERING IN WEST AFRICA; OR, “THE OPENING UP OF THE QUA IBOE RIVER”
29. 29.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 — GAMBIA TRADE, 1678. — SIERRA LEONE, 1678. — THE GOLD COAST. — USE MADE OF EUROPEAN GOODS BY THE NATIVES OF THE GOLD COAST. BARBOT. — SELECTION OF GOODS FOR FIDA OR ONIDAH, CALLED BY THE FRENCH JUIDA, NOW KNOWN AS DAHOMEY, WITH MAIN SEAPORT WHYDAH. — BENIN TRADE GOODS. — OUWERE (NOW CALLED WARRI) TRADE, AND THE NEW CALABAR TRADE, 1678. — OLD CALABAR TRADE, 1678. — TRADE OF RIO DEL REY, AMBOZES COUNTRY, CAMARONES RIVER, AND DOWN TO RIO GABON. — SELECTION OF GOODS FOR THE ISLANDS FERNANDO PO, ST. THOMAS’S, PRINCE’S, AND ANNOBON. — TRADE GOODS FOR CONGO AND CABENDA, 1700. — TRADE GOODS FOR SAN PAUL DO LOANDA. — FOOTNOTES:
30. 30.INDEX

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