A Concise Account OF THE COUNTRY, ITS HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, EXPLORATIONS, TRIBES, MANNERS, CUSTOMS, LANGUAGES, PREFACE. HE interest which is now felt by all classes in THE everything relating to Africa has suggested to the Author the propriety of giving to the public the results of his own observations and researches during his residence and travels, both in the western and southern sections of the great continent, together with such information as he has been able to glean from the various works that he has read upon the subject during the half-century which has elapsed since his attention was first drawn to the study of this interesting quarter of the globe. By careful analysis, arrangement, and condensation, the writer has endeavoured to make the present volume, not only a work of interest to the general reader, but also a portable, cheap, and convenient handbook of reference on the subjects of which it treats for missionaries, merchants, travellers, emigrants, and others who wish for reliable information on the history, geography, |