Travels in West Africa

by Kingsley, Mary H.; Huxley, Elspeth Joscelin Grant

• ISBN13: 9781885283092
• ISBN10: 1885283091
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-01
• Publisher: Adventure Library

Summary

It 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Liverpool to Sierra Leone	p. 11
The Gold Coast	p. 26
Fernando Po and the Bubis	p. 42
Lagos Bar	p. 73
Voyage Down Coast	p. 84
Libreville and Glass	p. 100
The Ogowe	p. 123
Talagouga	p. 152
The Rapids of the Ogowe	p. 166
Lembarene	p. 192
From Kangwe to Lake Ncovi	p. 231
From Ncovi to Esoon	p. 257
From Esoon to Agonjo	p. 294
Bush Trade and Fan Customs	p. 308
Down the Rembwe	p. 333
Congo Francais	p. 353
The Log of the Lafayette	p. 382
From Corisco to Gaboon	p. 410
Fetish	p. 429
Fetish--(Continued)	p. 458
Fetish--(Continued)	p. 483
Fetish--(Continued)	p. 501
Fetish--(Continued)	p. 521
Ascent of the Great Peak of Cameroons	p. 548
Ascent of the Great Peak of Cameroons--(Continued)	p. 567
The Great Peak of Cameroons--(Continued)	p. 581
The Great Peak of Cameroons--(Continued)	p. 592
The Islands in the Bay of Amboises	p. 609
Appendix
Trade and Labour in West Africa	p. 631
Disease in West Africa	p. 681
Dr. A. Gunther on Reptiles and Fishes	p. 692
Orthoptera, Hymenoptera, and Hemiptera	p. 718
The Invention of the Cloth Loom	p. 734
Index	p. 737
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