A HUNTER’S “LUCKY” FETISH 146 PRINCE ELEKO AND COUNCIL, SOUTHERN NIGERIA 168 LAND FORMATION, LOANDA, PORTUGUESE ANGOLA 170 CHANCEL AND NORTH WALL OF DISUSED DUTCH CHURCH, LOANDA (see page 171) 172 COCOA CARRYING, BELGIAN CONGO 174 ENTRANCE TO COCOA ROÇA, PRINCIPE ISLAND (PORTUGUESE) 174 SLAVES ON SAN THOMÉ 180 DISUSED SLAVE COMPOUND IN REAR OF HOUSE, CATUMBELLA 180 SLAVES ON COCOA ROÇA, PRINCIPE ISLAND 184 THE END OF THE SLAVE. TWO SLAVES CARRYING DEAD COMRADE IN SACK TO BURIAL 184 GUM COPAL FOR SALE, UPPER CONGO 214 GOVERNMENT IVORY AND RUBBER, UPPER CONGO 214 AN AVENUE OF OIL PALMS: TEN YEARS’ GROWTH 226 “WALKING” UP TO GATHER FRUIT. WEAVER BIRDS’ NESTS ON THE PALM FRONDS 230 HEADS OF OIL PALM FRUIT 230 THE OIL PALM IN THE GRIP OF ITS PARASITIC ENEMY:— THE CREEPER AT AN EARLY STAGE 232 ROOT AND BRANCH IN DEADLY GRIP 232 FINE HEADS OF OIL PALM FRUIT 234 CARRYING RUBBER VINES TO VILLAGE 240 EXTRACTING RUBBER, KASAI RIVER, UPPER CONGO 240 COCOA ON SAN THOMÉ. TERMITE TRACK VISIBLE ON THE TRUNK OF TREE 246 COCOA DRYING IN SUN 256 THE CRUCIFIX IN AFRICAN FETISH HUT ON THE ISLAND OF SAN THOMÉ 272 RUIN OF ONCE IMPOSING CHURCH ON THE ISLAND OF PRINCIPE 272 INTERIOR OF MISSIONARIES’ HOUSE. BASEL INDUSTRIAL MISSION FURNITURE MADE BY GOLD COAST INDUSTRIAL SCHOLARS 284 MAP OF CENTRAL AND SOUTH AFRICAN COLONIES WITH “MOTHER COUNTRIES” DRAWN TO SAME SCALE _at end of text_ FOREWORD WEST AFRICA West Africa, as some of us have known her, is rapidly changing. Within the memory of most men, there were deserts uncrossed, forests unexplored, tribes of people unknown. To-day every desert has been traversed; to-day we know not only the forests, but nearly every species of tree they contain; we know, and can locate, almost every African tribe, and almost every foot of territory has passed under the control, for the time being at least, of some alien Power.