XVI L IST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
IL LUSTRATIONS IN T E X T
P A G E
ON A GOLD COAST BEACH ....................................................................... 37
KING DUKE OF CALABAR IN FULL D R E S S ........................................................ 43
THE MANGO AVENUE, FERNANDO P O ............................................................................... 47
GOVERNOR’S PALACE, FERNANDO PO . . . 55
HATTON AND COOKSON’S FACTORY AT GLASS............................................. I °6
*VIEW OF ONE BRANCH OF THE QGOWÉ FROM K A N G W E ................................... 135
CAFFEA LIBIRICA— LIBERIAN C O F F E E .......................................................... 144
STATION OF THE MISSION ÉVANGÉLIQUE, TALAGOUGA............................................. 153
SOUTH BANK OF THE OGOWÉ RIVER NEAR SENGELADE ISLANDS . . . . l 8l
BOKO BOKO RAPIDS, OGOWÉ R IV E R ....................................................... !®3
SOUTH BANK OF THE OGOWÉ ABOVE BOKO BOKO ................................. 189
*IGALWA WOMEN 222
*FANS WITH IVORY AND RU B B ER ............................................. 29 °
AN AKKA DWARF OF CONGO F R A N Ç A IS ............................................................................3 !9
ANGOLA BLACKSMITHS..................................................................................... 324
*IN A FAN V IL LA G E ........................................................................... 3 3 1
*AN UPPER OGOWÉ V IL L A G E ..................................................................................................... 35 °
*BATEKE PORTERS, OGOWÉ.......................................................................................................... 357
*ADOOMAS, UPPER OGOWÉ . ■ 3®2
*AKONGAS, THE CHIEF GONIONE, AND HIS TWO WIV ES........................................ 3°5
• m o u n t - l o p e , o g o w é 370
*A GIANTESS' OF THE UPPER OGOWÉ .......................................................... 377
*UPPER OGOWÉ N A T IV E S ................................... 379
• m a k i n g A CHARM IN THE UPPER OGOWÉ REGION ............................................. 4 46
VIEW ON THE MIDDLE VOLTA ...................................................................... • 4 ^ 9
*LADY OF OBAMBO, OGOWÉ, SHOWING CICATRISATION..............................................53 °
PEAK OF CAMEROONS FROM THE NORTH-WEST............................................................5 5 1
BRINGING IN RUBBER—CONGO .....................*......................................................... 658
LOOM a t EQUETTA. . (By permission of Alexander Cowen, Esq.) . . . . 735
TRAVELS IN WEST AFRICA
INTRODUCT ION
Relateth the various causes which impelled the author to embark upon
the voyage.
I t was in 1893 that, for the first time in my life, I found
myself in possession of five or six months which were not
heavily forestalled, and feeling like a boy with a new half-
crown, I lay about in my mind, as Mr. Bunyan would say, as
to what to do with them. “ Go and learn your tropics,” said
Science. Where on earth am I to go, I wondered, for tropics
are tropics wherever found, so I got down an atlas and saw
that either South America or West Africa must be my
destination, for the Malayan region was too far off and too
expensive. Then I got Wallace’s Geographical Distribution
and after reading that master’s article on the Ethiopian
region I hardened my heart and closed with West Africa. I
did this the more readily because while I knew nothing of the
practical condition of it, I knew a good deal both by tradition
and report of South East America, and remembered that
Yellow Jack was endemic, and that a certain naturalist, my
superior physically and mentally, had come very near getting
starved to death in the depressing, society of an expedition
slowly perishing of want and miscellaneous fevers up the
Parana.
My ignorance regarding West Africa was soon removed.
And although the vast cavity in my mind that it occupied
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