Note 4 — Chapter I · FIVE YEARS OF BRITISH TRADE WITH WESTERN AFRICA
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The total volume of trade—British and foreign and coastwise—in each of the West African Colonies in the five years 1896-1900, including specie, has been as follows:
Gambia £1,797,916
Sierra Leone 4,646,503
Gold Coast 10,393,850
Lagos 8,853,461
Niger Coast Protectorate (and for 1900, “Nigeria”) 8,183,288
Gross total £42,728,479
The trade of the former territories of the Niger Company, from 1896 to 1899 inclusive, is not reckoned in this total, no public figures being available.