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is fair trade. There is no government here. Now
and then a man-of-war steams up and returns. The
Consul was absent, but still all lived in unity and
concord.
On the 28 th of June the Kinsembo anchored in
Bonny River. The great bulk Adriatic, commanded
by Captain Bell, lifts its giant form, and displays the
magnificent model of one of the old Collins’s Trans-
Atlantic steamers. At Bonny, also, there are bouses
worth £3000, owned by native chiefs. There is a
cluster of factories on shore: numbers of old bulks
are in the river, and a prosperous trade seems to keep
every one busy in one of the saddest and most gloomy
climates I have ever experienced. The great fear of
the climate, however, is vanishing from the minds of
men. The factors live well, and in comfortable houses.
I t is the fashion now to build corrugated iron houses,
framed within with wood, and appropriately furnished.
One inhabited by Mr. Whitehouse, 50 by 34 feet,
possessed a covered verandah 11 feet broad, which
is as near perfection as the genius of its designer had
attained. Another story added, and each story three
feet higher, with uniform and prudent life, and a fuller
conquest would be achieved over the vitiated and
destructive atmosphere which clings to the muddy
shores of the rivers in the Bight of Benin.
From Bonny River, which is the main channel to
New Calabar River, we proceed north-west, and