[14] It is only fair to state that Mr. W. H. Himbury, of the British Cotton Growing Association, has since pointed out, in regard to the prices fetched by indigenous Southern Nigerian cotton (p. 227), that the prices here given only refer to small samples and cannot be taken as indicative of the general selling value of Southern Nigerian cotton. The official report of the Commercial Intelligence officer of Southern Nigeria, from which the figures here given are quoted, is thus somewhat misleading. But the correction does not appreciably affect my general line of suggestion. Referring to the cotton grown in the Bassa and Nassarawa provinces of Northern Nigeria, Professor Wyndham Dunstan in his recent report states that in making a comparison of the lint for the Liverpool market the standard employed is “Moderately rough Peruvian, which is a grade of higher price than Middling American.” [15] And some of the Wesleyans—notably the Superintendent of the Wesleyan Missions in Southern Nigeria, the Rev. Oliver Griffen. [16] It may, perhaps, be well to emphasize, in view of the printed statements describing the writer as the “champion of the liquor traffic” and so forth, which are so freely made in certain quarters, that the above remarks are concerned solely with the liquor traffic _in Southern Nigeria_—not in West Africa as a whole. They deal with specific facts affecting a specific area of West Africa and with specific circumstances surrounding those facts which have formed the subject of public controversy. INDEX Abeokuta, city of, 78, 79, 80, 84, 224 Alake of, 79 Alkalis, their functions, 149 Amalgamation of the Protectorates, 46, 187, 209. (_See under_ British policy.) Anthropological research, British indifference to, 185. (_See under_ British policy.) Ants, white, 29 Arab traders in Kano, 166 Baikie, Dr., 46 Baro, 91, 195, 203 Barth, Dr., 123, 152 Bassa, 117, 202, 231 Bauchi, people, plateau and Province of, 4, 19, 127, 138, 171, 177, 179-186, 192, 202 a unique ethnological field, 185 (_See also under_ Mining and Tin.) Beecroft, John, 45 Bees, 29, 114 Beit-el-Mals, the, 147, 148, 149 Bell, Sir Henry Hesketh, Preface, 136, 172, 241 Bello, Emir, 99, 100 Benin, country and people of, 65, 68-70, 140, 203 Benue, river and region of the, 94, 170, 171, 180, 183, 202-203 Bida, city of, 29, 31, 110, 119, 128 Blyden, Dr. E. Wilmot, Preface, Introduction Borgu, 118, 138, 177, 202, 203 Bornu, 99, 101, 126, 127, 138, 170, 177, 202, 232 British Cotton Growing Association, 222, etc. (_See under_ Cotton.)