The Niger Sources and the Borders of the New Sierra
Leone Protectorate. By Lieutenant-Colonel J. K. Trotter, B.A. (Methuen and Co.)—This is a most interesting as well as lucidly and modestly written book., and is none the less important that it gives us some reason to believe that in the future "the white man's grave" will belie its reputation. Colonel Trotter went out in the end of 1895 to delimit the boundary between Sierra Leone and French Guinea. Having done his work, Colonel Trotter returned to the coast. He has great hopes for the future of the Hinterland after it is reached by the railroad now being constructed from Freetown. His chapter on the health question deserves careful reading. Of Sierra Leone itself, he says that "a little enterprise on the part of the people should make their harbour the port of call for vessels bound both to South Africa and to the Pacific, as well as those homeward bound from those parts." Maps and reproductions of photographs add greatly to the value of this book, which will be found equally useful from the ethnographical and from the geographical point of view.
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