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The agricultural and forest products of British West Africa

LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

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Sketch Map of British West Africa Frontispiece

GAMBIA AND SIERRA LEONE

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Jolah with Native Hand-plough, Bullelai, Fogni 3

Canary Island Plough, Agricultural School, Abuko 3

Rubber Tree (Ficus vogelii) at Bathurst 3

Rubber Vine (Landolphia heudelotii) at Kotoo 9

Ceara Rubber Tree (Manihot glaziovii) at Bakau 9

Rubber Tree (Castilloa elastica) at Kotoo 9

Fruits of Oil Palms, Sierra Leone 13

Sweet Cassava, with Baobab Trees, Bakau 13

Indigo Dyers, McCarthy Island 13

Sketch Map of Gambia and Sierra Leone 15

Oil Palms (Elæis guineensis), Mafokoyia 21

Native collecting Oil Palm Fruit, Blama 21

Kola Tree at Mano 21

Native Weaver at Pendembu 35

GOLD COAST

Kumassi, the Capital of Ashanti 35

Stone Vat for pounding Palm Fruits, with surrounding Gutter and Oil Well, Krobo Plantations 35

Sketch Map of Gold Coast 43

Cocoa at Mramra attacked by Black Cocoa-bark Bug 51

Drying Cocoa Beans at Mramra 51

Native tapping Indigenous Rubber Tree (Funtumia elastica), Oboamang, Ashanti 51

“Odum” Trees (Chlorophora excelsa) 61

Para Rubber Tree (Hevea brasiliensis), tapped at Aburi 61

Rubber Tree tapped, Herring-bone System Imperfect, Aburi 61

NIGERIA—SOUTHERN PROVINCES

Sketch Map of Southern Nigeria 93

Straining Oil from the Fibrous Pulp of the Oil Palm, Oshogbo 97

Cotton Bales, Marlborough Ginnery, Ibadan 97

Afara Tree (Terminalia superba) at Olokomeji 97

Dwarf Cattle, Illara 119

Owo 119

NIGERIA—NORTHERN PROVINCES

Haussa cultivating Implements (Left to Right: I. Fatainya, II. Garma, III. Sangumi), Northern Provinces 119

Sketch Map of Northern Nigeria 120

Shea-butter Tree (Butyrospermum Parkii), with Nut-collectors, Ilorin 130

Yielding Gum Tree (Acacia caffra) at Kontagora 130

Locust-bean Tree (Parkia filicoidea) at Ilorin 130

Village of Fogola, built of Guinea-corn Stalks 137

Outside the Emir’s Palace, Kano 137

Near the Southern Gate, Zaria 137

British Cotton Growing Association Ginnery, Ogudu, Ilorin 155

Gwari Town, opposite Minna, South of Zaria 155

Cow Fulani Woman selling Milk at Gwari 155

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