Subject and Arrangement--Area of Cruising-Ground--Distribution of Subjects. 13 CHAPTER II. Discoveries by French and Portuguese along the Coast--Cape of Good Hope--Results. 17 CHAPTER III. Pirates--Davis, Roberts, and others--British Cruisers--Slave-Trade systematized--Guineamen--“Horrors of the Middle Passage”. 20 CHAPTER IV. Physical Geography--Climate--Geology--Zoology--Botany. 31 CHAPTER V. African Nations--Distribution of Races--Arts--Manners and Character--Superstitions--Treatment of the Dead--Regard for the Spirits of the Departed--Witchcraft--Ordeal--Military Force--Amazons--Cannibalism. 46 CHAPTER VI. Trade--Metals--Mines--Vegetable Productions--Gums--Oils--Cotton--Dye-Stuffs. 65 CHAPTER VII. European Colonies--Portuguese--Remaining Influence of the Portuguese--Slave Factories--English Colonies--Treaties with the Native Chiefs--Influence of Sierra Leone--Destruction of Barracoons--Influence of England--Chiefs on the Coast--Ashantee--King of Dahomey. 71 CHAPTER VIII. Dahomey--Slavish Subjection of the People--Dependence of the King on the Slave-Trade--Exhibition of Human Skulls--Annual Human Sacrifices--Lagos--The Changes of Three Centuries. 85 CHAPTER IX. State of the Coast prior to the Foundation of Liberia--Native Tribes--Customs and Policy--Power of the Folgias--Kroomen, &c.--Conflicts. 94 CHAPTER X. General Views on the Establishment of Colonies--Penal Colonies--Views of the People of the United States in reference to African Colonies--State of Slavery at the Revolutionary War--Negroes who joined the English--Disposal of them by Great Britain--Early Movements with respect to African Colonies--Plan matured by Dr. Finley--Formation of the American Colonization Society. 101 CHAPTER XI. Foundation of the American Colony--Early Agents--Mills, Burgess, Bacon and others--U. S. Sloop-of-War “Cyane”--Arrival at the Island of Sherboro--Disposal of Recaptured Slaves by the U. S. Government--Fever--Slavers Captured--U. S. Schooner “Shark”--Sherboro partially abandoned--U. S. Schooner “Alligator”--Selection and Settlement of Cape Mesurado--Capt. Stockton--Dr. Ayres--King Peter--Arguments with the Natives--Conflicts--Dr. Ayres made Prisoner--King Boatswain--Completion of the Purchase. 110 CHAPTER XII.