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A transformed colony : Sierra Leone, as it was, and as it is : its progress, peoples, native customs and undeveloped wealth
- Title
- A transformed colony : Sierra Leone, as it was, and as it is : its progress, peoples, native customs and undeveloped wealth / by T.J. Alldridge ; with sixty-six illustrations & a map.
- Author
- Alldridge, T. J. (Thomas Joshua), 1847-1916
- Publication
- Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott ; London : Seeley and Co., 1910.
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- Description
- xvi, 368 pages, [46] leaves of plates : illustrations, color map; 23 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
- Alternative Title
- Sierra Leone, as it was, and as it is
- Subject
- Note
- "Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh."--verso of title page.
- Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. Edinburgh & London."--colophon, foot of page 368.
- Includes index.
- Provenance (note)
- is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
- Contents
- ch. 1. Introductory -- ch. 2. Freetown -- ch. 3. Freetown: A general look around -- ch. 4. Freetown as seen in its streets -- ch. 5. The population of Freetown -- ch. 6. The food supply of Freetown -- ch. 7. The popular trading roads -- ch. 8. The Freetown Municipal Council -- ch. 9. The revolution in trade -- ch. 10. The Princess Christian Mission Hospital -- ch. 11. The mountains and the mountain villages -- ch. 12. The mountain railway -- ch. 13. The Sierra Leone government railway -- ch. 14. From Kissy to Bo -- ch. 15. The halt at Bo -- ch. 16. The government school at Bo -- ch. 17. From Bo to Baiima -- ch. 18. Still in the oil-belt -- ch. 19. Along the road to Pendembu -- ch. 20. Back to the coast by swamp, bush, and forest -- ch. 21. The old chiefs and the new -- ch. 22. Byways in Mendiland -- ch. 23. The Mendi marriage customs -- ch. 24. The Bundu Order, the secret society for women -- ch. 25. The coast and its waterways -- ch. 26. Sherbro (fish) from minnow to tarpon -- ch. 27. The Sherbro churches -- ch. 28. The making of a Bai Sherbro and of a Sokong of Imperri -- ch. 29. Tribal wars that led to the forming of the protectorate -- ch. 30. The need of a protectorate -- ch. 31. From Mr. Garrett's log-book -- ch. 32. Mr. Garrett's log continued: Across the Niger -- ch. 33. Back to Port Lokko -- ch. 34. The oil-palm -- ch. 35. The kola tree -- ch. 36. Conclusion -- Index.
- Call Number
- Sc 916.64-A (Alldridge, T. Transformed colony)
- OCLC
- 4385681
- NYPGR4385681-B
- Author
- Alldridge, T. J. (Thomas Joshua), 1847-1916, author.
- Title
- A transformed colony : Sierra Leone, as it was, and as it is : its progress, peoples, native customs and undeveloped wealth / by T.J. Alldridge ; with sixty-six illustrations & a map.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott ; London : Seeley and Co., 1910.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Provenance
- Copy in Sc 916.64-A (accession no. B429098) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN
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- Added Author
- J.B. Lippincott Company, publisher.Seeley and Co., publisher.Ballantyne, Hanson and Co., printer.Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.
- Research Call Number
- Sc 916.64-A (Alldridge, T. Transformed colony)BMH (Alldridge, T. J. Transformed colony)