Abu-Muhammed, projected railroad from, to Kurusku, 433

Adamastos, a slave vessel that lost 304 out of 800 slaves on her voy--
age, 162

Adams, an Englishman enslaved at Timbuctoo, 462

Addah Cuddah, an African town destroyed in a slave hunt, 85
Addahkuddah, a town on the Niger, 472

Advances already made in introducing education and religion, 498
Africa, her early condition unknown, but more flourishing than in
modern times, 227; engaged in agricultural pursuits in the twelfth
and sixteenth centuries, 227; evidence of Sir J. Hawkins in 1562,
227; of Bosman in 1700, of W. Smith in 1726, description of the
country by recent travellers, 228, 472, 473; of the interior, 474;
inhabitants in a demoralised state, 231, 290; the knowledge we
possess very limited, 269, 277; reason to suppose that her condi-
tion is far worse than it has been ascertained to be, 269; her ca-
pabilities, 271, 280, 307, 459, 476; disposition to trade, 272, 476;
much confidence in the British, 289; favourable disposition of
chiefs in the interior, 290; importance of, as a field of European
commerce, 305; her productions, 310 to 337; willingness of the
people to labour, 328; her geographical position, 357

African statistics, 307, 311; population, 472
African timber, extent to which it is imported, 478
African trade contrasted with other trades to show its present insig-
nificance, 304, 307; its value in introducing civilisation and
Christianity, 306; imports increased since 1820, 308; articles
calculated for, enumerated, 310 to 329; might be largely ex-
tended in cotton, 335; at present checked by the slave trade, 340,
472; the import trade into Africa capable of vast extension, 341,
343, 377; facilities for commercial intercourse, 344; security ne.
cessary, 358; principles on which all trade with Africa should be
conducted, 441

Agents, in all cases, should be negroes or coloured, 286, 454; to be
obtained among the liberated Africans, 492; also from Jamaica,
494; from Antigua, 495; from Wesleyan negroes in the West
Indies, generally, 495

Aglae, a slave vessel, description of her stowage of her slaves, 136

Agricultural Company recommended, 518

Agriculture discouraged by the slave trade, 226, 279, 483; its pro-
fitable returns, 280; would be checked by the removal of our
cruisers, 284; eligible character of the country, 316; in Liberia,
327; places adapted for cotton, 335; practical effect in providing
greater profits than are found in the slave trade, 338; general
success at Sierra Leone, 376; agricultural school at McCarthy's
Island, 390; model plantations suggested by Governor Rendall,
414; by Mr. Laird, 420; natives disposed to agriculture, 475;
state of, at Kimba, 482

Aguila Primera, slave vessel, 37

Ahomed, the Arab master of Captain Paddock, 467

Aku, language generally understood by captured negroes, 499, note
Albreda, a French settlement on the Gambia, 385

Alcide, Portuguese slave vessel, 51

Allen, Captain W., R.N., employed by the Admiralty to ascend the
Niger, 423; his views coincident with those of the Remedy, 423
Allen, William, a slave trader, 123

Anaconda, an American slave vessel, 40

Angola, its slave exports, 51, 52; the governor of, a slave trader, 207
Angornou, a market for the Mahommedan slave trade, 63

Apoko, chief linguist to the king of the Ashantees, 258

Apollonia, conduct of the king of, in a slave-trading transaction, 394
Arab vessels, employed in slave trade, 60

Arabian slave trade, its extent, 66

Arabic, used as a written language in the interior, 474

Arabin, Captain, his description of the native manufactures at Cas-
samanza, 483

Argentine republic, its share in the slave trade, 38, 53

Argus, a Spanish slave vessel that threw ninety-seven of her slaves
overboard, 157

Arogan, a slave vessel, mortality arising from stowage described, 161
Ashantees, their ferocious character and customs, 236 to 240; effects
of missionary labour among them, 490

Ashmun, his advice to Liberian settlers, 326, 331; his opinion on
African cotton, 334

Attah, an African town on the Niger, 472

Aviso, a slave vessel, her stowage described, 144: after capture, 176

B.

Badagry, in the Bight of Benin, a slave market, 115

Bahia, its slave imports, 18

Bammakoo, on the Niger, 345

Bandinel, Mr., of the Foreign Office, his testimony to African fidelity

to treaties, 297; respecting, Sierra Leone, 362; respecting St.
Mary's on the Gambia, 384

Banee island, 478

Barra, its chief favourable to missionaries, 489; treaty with him, 532
Bassa language, books in it, 499

Bates, Elisha, his evidence of the efficacy of Christianity in improv-
ing the temporal condition of the American Indians, 510

Beaver, Captain, his opinion of the fertility of Africa, 333; his
attempt to establish a colony on the island of Bulama, 447)

Beecham, Rev. John, 505

Becroft, Captain, his views on the abolition of slave-trading by agri-
culture and commerce, 424

Begharmi, a district in the interior, 346

Bello, sultan of the Felatahs, his overtures to Captain Clapperton, 293
Benguela, its slave exports, 50, 51; state of its slave depôt, 113
Benin, its manufacture of muskets, 479

Berracoe, 247

Biafra, king of, treaty with him, 532

Bimbia river, 545

Bloodhounds, on board slave-vessels to keep the slaves in order, 143
Boaul, 534

Bondou, 478, 489; treaty with the king of, 533

Boollibanny, the capital of Bondou, 489,

Bornou, slave trade, 66, 70, 79; sheik of, the terms of his alliances
with the sultan of Mandara, 80; inhabitants averse to the trade,
291; its manufactures, 480

Bossman, his statement of the mortality of slave-trading expeditions,

98

Bowditch, Mr., his description of the human sacrifices, 233, 234
Bowring, Dr., his information respecting slave importations into
Egypt, 68, 109; his account of the sufferings of a female slave
over the desert, 110; of slaves during the seasoning, 193
Brazilian Friends, a slave vessel, her stowage, and the state of her
cargo described, 144

Brazilian Government, its connivance at the trade, 27, 180

Brazilian slave trade, 16, 18, 19, 24; evidence of its extent, 21, 22, 29
53; on the increase, 25, 28; with Quilimane, 49; its extent with
the east coast of Africa, 50

Breckama, king of, desirous of British protection, 534

Brillante, a slave vessel that lost 214 out of 621 slaves, 163

British manufactures, trade purposely for the slave trade, 55; the
extent of such manufactures, 56

Brown, the botanist, his observations on the uniformity of vegetation

in Western Africa, 329

Browne, the traveller, his estimate of the number of slaves in cara-
vans, 65; his description of the march to the coast, 99

Bruce, the traveller, his account of slave-hunting expeditions, 74
Buenos Ayres, slave imports, 37, 53

Bulama, an island, the scene of Captain Beaver's colonial specula-
tion, 447; in the Rio Grande, belonging to Great Britain, 535
Bullen, Captain R.N., his description of the "Aviso" after capture,
176; of Fernando Po, 350

Bullom language, Gospel of St. Matthew translated into, 499
Bulola, king of, treaty with him, 532

Burckhardt, his information respecting the slave market at Shendy
66, 69; respecting the march to the coast, 103

Byam, Mr., his efforts to suppress slave trading at the Mauritius,

220

C.

Cacheo, a Portuguese settlement, 535

Caillie, the African traveller, his description of the march to the
coast, 106

Calabar, Old, a district under Duke Ephraim, 486

Calabases river, 545

Camaroons, a mountain in Fernando Po, 348

Camaroon river, 545

Campbell, Lieutenant-Colonel, his official remonstrance with Mahom-
med Ali respecting slave hunts, 90

Canabac, palaver with the kings of, respecting the cession of Bula-

ma, 535

Capture, mortality after, 175; evidence of Admiral Hamond, 175;
of Captain Bullen, 175; of Mr. McCormack, 176; fourteen per
cent. on the number captured, 178; loss of life after capture illus-
trated in the case of seventeen vessels, amounting to 44 per cent.,
183; report of the committee of 1830, 183

Captured slaves, their state on being liberated, 369

Caravalho, a Portuguese, the only slave trader on the Rio Nunez,

381

Carbo, a war in, lasted for 12 years, 534

Calros, a slave trader, from which slaves were thrown overboard, 135
Carletta, a slave vessel that by mismanagement was wrecked and
lost 269 slaves, 166

Carolina, a slave vessel, sufferings of her cargo from want of water
described, 160

Cassamanza, a river, the site of Portuguese factories, 483

Cassan, 534

Cassoos, a powerful slave-trading tribe, 83

Castle, Captain R.N., his description of a slave vessel captured by
him, 150

Cayor, 534

Christianity cannot be introduced till the slave trade is suppressed,
10, 11, 226; its connexion with legitimate commerce, 306; with
agriculture, 483; its civilising power, 502

Cinco Amicos, slave vessel, 36

Cintra, a slave vessel that lost 214 out of 970 slaves, 163
Civilization of Africa may be effected by education in the country,
279, 502; will be introduced by legitimate commerce, 306; general
remarks, 360; results of experience, 362; in the case of the Gold
Coast, 390; of St. Mary's, 384; coincidence of opinions on the
way of promoting it, 423; predicted by Pitt, 458; rapidly advanced
by Christianity, 504, 505; specific steps to be taken, 518
Clapperton, Captain, his interviews with Bello, sultan of the Felatahs,
on the suppression of the trade, 293; his report on African
cotton, 333

Clarence, in Fernando Po, its description, 540

Clarke, George, twelve years resident in New Zealand, his views of
the power of Christianity in advancing civilization, 505

Clarkson, Thomas, his views as to the means of abolishing slave
trading, 424; Appendix D., 545

Clippers, American, a vessel particularly used for the slave trade,
because built for speed without reference to the accommodation of
the cargo, 159

Clouston, Mr., a merchant at Freetown, his speculation in ginger, 374
Coates, Mr., his views of the power of Christianity in advancing
civilization, 503

Cobbe, a market for the Mohammedan slave trade, 63

Coffee, 330, 331

Coincidence of opinions on the civilization of Africa, 423, 435, 436
Collier, Admiral, his report of the capture of La Jeune Estelle, 140
Collingwood, Luke, the captain of a slave vessel who threw his
slaves overboard, 131

Combo, king of, treaty with him, 532

Commerce essential to Africa, 7, 278; mercantile views of an
African chief, 280; of the inhabitants of Bornou, 291; nature of
the existing trade described, 304

Commissioners in mixed commission courts, 18, 30

Committee on Sierra Leone, its report, 364

Commodore, a slave vessel that lost 300 out of 685 slaves, 163