To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. IIBurton, Richard Francis, Sir
History
To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. II
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Ghana -- Description and travel; Gold mines and mining -- Ghana
Palm-birds (_Orioles_), ii.
Palm-wine, ii.
Palmyra (_Borassus flabelliformis_), the, ii.
Papaw, the, ii.
Patras, i.
Payne, Bishop, ii.
Pearl-culture, ii.
Pico del Pilon, the, i.
Pico Ruivo, i.
Pile-dwellings, i.
Pino del Dornajito, the, i.
Plants, list of, collected by Capt. Burton and Commander Cameron, ii.
Poke Islet, ii.
Polyandry, i.
Ponta do Sol, i.
Porto Loko, ii.
Porto Santo, i.
Prince's river, ii.
geographical aspect,
gold signs,
a true lagoon-stream,
animal life,
fish,
luxuriance of vegetation,
shifting aspects and bends of the river,
mining grounds,
idiosyncrasies of native travelling,
collecting plants,
insect pests,
Prince's fort,
local fetish.
Puerto de la Luz, i.
Retama (_Cytisus fragrans_, Lam), the, i.
San Christobal de la Laguna, i.
Sanguis Draiconis, i.
Sanma, i.
Santa Cruz (Madeira), i.
Santa Cruz (Tenerife), i.
Sao Joao do Principe, i.
Senegambia, French colonisation in, i.
Sickness on the West Coast of Africa, ii.
its remedies,
Tinctura Warburgii.
Sierra Leone, situation and aspect of, ii.
geological formation,
its only antiquity--Drake's inscription,
washerwomen,
St. George's Cathedral,
the market,
fruits,
vegetables,
meat,
leather,
snakes,
plan of the 'city',
climate,
clothing and diet suitable for,
rainy season,
the 'Kissy' road,
history of,
abolition of slavery,
its four colonies,
the Sierra Leone Company,
rival races of the Aku and Ibo,
trial by jury,
religious establishments,
negro psalmody,
negro education,
influence of the Moslem faith on the negro character,
journalism,
population,
native character,
bad influence of the colony,
a 'peddling' people,
agriculture,
the true system of negro education,
Chinese coolie labour advocated,
Stanley's observations on the natives',
disinclination to agriculture.
Sisaman (the African Hades), ii.
Slavery, notes on, ii.
Snakes, ii.
Spanish account of the repulse of Nelson from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, i.
Spiders, native beliefs concerning, ii.
Spur-plover (_Lobivanellus albiceps_), the, ii.
Stanley's, Mr., observations on the African labour question, ii.
St. John concession, the, ii.
St. Mary Bathurst, i.
Stone implements, ii.
Su, the African radical of water, ii.
Sulayma river, the, ii.
Sulphur, on Mount Atlas, analysis of, i.
Susus (tribe), the, i.
Swallow (_Wardenia nigrita_), the, ii.
Swanzy establishment, the, ii.
Swords, i.
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