A.B. ELLIS

Major, First West India Regiment

AUTHOR OF "WEST AFRICAN ISLANDS" AND "THE LAND OF FETISH"

London:

CHAPMAN AND HALL, Limited

HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN

1885

CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS

CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS

I beg to return my best thanks to A.E. Havelock, Esq., C.M.G. Administrator-in-Chief of the West African Settlements; Lieutenant-Colonel F.B.P. White, of the 1st West India Regiment; V.S. Gouldsbury, Esq., Administrator of the Gambia Settlements; A. Young, Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of Demerara; F. Evans, Esq., C.M.G., Assistant Colonial Secretary of the Gold Coast Colony; Alfred Kingston, Esq., of the Record Office; and Richard Garnett, Esq., of the British Museum, for the very valuable assistance which they have rendered me in the collection of materials for this Work.