A NARRATIVE
OF THE
EXPEDITION TO THE RIVER NIGER.

DEDICATION

TO

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE ALBERT, K.G.

WHO

AS PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE EXTINCTION

OF THE

SLAVE TRADE AND THE CIVILIZATION OF AFRICA,

TOOK SUCH PHILANTHROPICAL INTEREST IN ITS OBJECTS

AND IN THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE

NIGER EXPEDITION;

THESE VOLUMES,

ARE DEDICATED WITH GRACIOUS PERMISSION,

BY HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS',

MOST DEVOTED HUMBLE SERVANTS,

WILLIAM ALLEN,

T.R.H. THOMSON