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RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED: LONDON AND BUNGAY.



The Niger Delta MAP OF THE NIGER DELTA.





Transcriber’s Note

The following typographical errors/spelling errors have been corrected.

PageAs printedAs correctedComment
38be took by locusts!be took by locusts!”added closing quote
42You remember D——?You remember D——?”added closing quote
75regarding this affair,regarding this affair.changed comma to period
86arivesarrivescorrected
246TimbuctoTimbuctoochanged to match other instances
255BodajorBojadorcorrected
287 [54]Footnote 54 was unnumbered and is provided
289(about £6,400(about £6,400)added closing parenthesis
416sink—holessink-holesem-dash to hyphen
485aniversariesanniversariescorrected
495gunpowder on the floor fogunpowder on the floor ofcorrected
510number of 3,200,00 soulsnumber of 3,200,000 soulsadded 0
[91]Monopolies, have ledMonopolies have ledremoved extra comma
602I did not like their demeanourI did not like their demeanour.added missing period
603our goods are in their hands.our goods are in their hands.”added closing quote
615own way too much,own way too much.changed comma to period
622perpetually on, their guard perpetually on their guardremoved spurious comma
623mumbernumbercorrected
625the anker being a 16 gallon rundletthe anker being a 16 gallon rundlet)added closing parenthesis
636Clerks, 329, 357,Clerks, 329, 357removed comma at the end

The following words appear as variants and have been left as printed:

Ogowe (3)Ogowé (11)
Filiaria perstans (1)Filaria perstans (1)
mütterrecht (1)mutterrecht(1)
Bassambri (1)Basambri (1)

The following words appear with and without hyphens. The various spellings are left as printed. Where the printed text introduces a hyphen at end-of-line, the hyphen is retained only if that variant is otherwise predominant.

Scott-Elliott Scott Elliot
Sea-shore seashore
head-quarters headquarters
a-shore ashore
craw-fish crawfish
fire-woodfirewood
ear-ringsearrings
head-manheadman
inter-marriageintermarriage
ju-jujuju
re-capturedrecaptured
re-organizedreorganized
sand-fliessandflies
middlemanmiddle-man
sandbankssand-banks
Winna-boesWinnaboes
small-poxsmallpox