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THE BRITISH EMPIRE I — WEST AFRICAN COLONIES

^ r S. Nigeria S I Gold Coast Sierra Leone Gambia.

1

pq

Total

1007

1008

992,196 979,883 1,495,956 1,532,478 1,456,906 1,588,145

304,503! 301,287

4,249,561:4,391,793

1000

1910

938,654 ' 916,363 1,635,176 1,583,862 1.626,528 1,543,924

338,604 323,880

4,538,962 4,368,009

1011

915,838 1,557,686 1,707,155

287,680

4,468,359

The steamships of 2 British navigation companies visit Gambia, the Elder, Dempster and Company's boats visit Sierra Leone.

The currency, weights, and measures are the same as those used in Great Britain. Bank of England notes are not legal tender in the Gambia.

Books of Reference.

Nigeria.

Papers relating to the Massacre of British Officials near Benin. London, 1807.

Papers relating to the Royal Niger Company. London, 1899,

Boundary Convention with France, 1898. London, 1899.

Government Gazette, 1000, 1001, 1902, 1903.

Annual Reports on Northern and Southern Nigeria. — Colonial Reports. Miscellaneous Series.

Travels of Clapperton, R. Lander. Richardson, Earth, Rohlfs.

Bacon (R. H.), The City of Blood.' [Benin]. London, 1807.

£indZo«« (H.), In the Niger Country. London, 1899.

Boisragon (Captain), The Massacre in Benin. London, 1897.

Dennett (R. E.), At the Back of the Black Man's Mind, or Notes on the Kingly Office in West Africa. London, 1906.

Falconer (J. D.), On Horseback through Nigeria. London, 1911; The Geology and Geography of Northern Nigeria. London, 1911.

CroWie (Hugh), Old Calabar and its Mission, 1890.

Harford-Battersby (C. F.), Niger and Yoruba Routes. 2 vols. London, 1895-96.

Hazzledine (G. D.), The White Man in Nigeria. London, 1904.

Hutchinson, Narrative of the-Niger, Tshadda, and Binue Exploration.

Hodges (F. E.), Consular Jurisdiction in the Niger Coast. London, 1895.

Hourst (Lieut.), Sur le Niger et au Pays des Touaregs. Paris, 1898.— The Exploration of the Niger, 1895-96. [Eng. Trans.] London, 1898.

Johnston (Sir Harry), The Colonisation of Africa. Cambridge, 1899.

Keltie(J. Scott), The Partition of Africa. 2nd ed. London, 1895,

Leona7d{A. G.), The Lower Niger and its Tribes. London, 1906.

Lucas (C. P.), Historical Geography of the British Colonies. Vol, III. Oxford, 1894.

Lugard (Ladj), A Tropical Dependency. Ijondon, 1005.

MacDonald(Sir C. M.), Paper in Proceedings R. G. S., 1891,

Mockler-Ferryman (A. F.), Up the Niger. London, 1892. Imperial Africa. Vol. I. London, 1808.— British Nigeria. London 1902.

Morel (E. D.), Nigeria. Its Problems and its People. London, 1911.

Nigeria, Our Latest Protectorate. London, 1900.

On-(Capt. C. W. J), R.A., The Making of Northern Nigeria. London, 1011.

Ortroz (P. Van) Conventions Internationales concernant 1' Afrique. Brussels, 1898.

Partridge (C), Cross River Natives. London, 1905.

Robinson (C. H.), Hausaland: Fifteen Hundred Miles through the Central Soudan. London, 1806.

Thomson (J.), ' Mungo Park,' and Proc. R. Geographical Soc. (1886).

Tremearne (MaJ. A. J. N.), The Niger and the West Soudan, London, 1011.

Trotter (Colonel J, K ), The Niger Sources, London, 1897.

Vandeleiir (S.), Campaigning on the Upper Nile and Niger, (London, 1808,)

Other. West African Colonies, etc.

The Annual Blue Books of the various Colonies, and Reports thereon. The Colonial Office List, Annual.

The Gambia Colony and Protectorate, An Official Handbook. By F. B, Archer, Treasurer of the Colony, London, 1912.