Lucas, Charles Prestwood-Continued. the Maldives. The British dependencies in the Malay seas: The Straits Settlements; Perak; Selangor; Sungei; Ujong; Labuan; North Borneo; Hongkong. Dependencies in the Indian Ocean: Mauritus and its dependencies; The Cocos Islands. 2. West Indies: The Bermudas; European colonization in the West Indies; The Bahamas; Jamaica and its dependencies; The Leeward Islands; Barbados; The Windward Islands; Trinidad and Tobago; British Guiana; British Honduras; The Falkland Islands and South Georgia. 3. The British colonies and dependencies in Africa: Early exploration of Africa down to the opening of the route round the Cape of Good Hope. The West African dependencies: The west coast; Early European trade and settlement on the west coast of Africa; The African companies and the slave trade; English, French, and Dutch on the west coast, 1660-1821; The rise of the British west coast settlement; The last twenty years in West Africa; The Gambia; Sierra Leone; The Gold coast; Lagos; The Niger protectorates; The islands in the South Atlantic: Ascension; St. Helena; Tristan da Cunha, and Gough Island. 4, part 1. South and East Africa. Historical: The Cape, 1487-1652; The founding of the Dutch settlement at the Cape; The Cape Colony in the eighteenth century; The missionary movement and British immigration; The Kaffir wars; The beginnings of Natal and the Boer republics; The growth of the Cape Colony and Natal; The last twenty years in South Africa. 4, part 2. Geographical: The Cape Colony; Natal; Zululand; Basutoland; The Bechuanaland protectorate; Matabeleland and Mashonaland; British Central Africa; British East Africa. 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