Travels In West Africa

by Kingsley, Mary H.

• ISBN13: 9781419190919
• ISBN10: 1419190911
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-30
• Publisher: Kessinger Pub

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

Travels in West Africa	1	(2)
Mary H. Kingsley
Travels in West Africa (Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons)	3	(379)
Mary H. Kingsley
Preface	3	(1)
Preface to the Abridged Edition of Travels in West Africa	4	(4)
Introduction	8	(7)
Liverpool to Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast	15	(15)
Fernando Po and the Bubis	30	(21)
Voyage Down Coast	51	(10)
The Ogowe	61	(19)
The Rapids of the Ogowe	80	(19)
Lembarene	99	(24)
On the Way from Kangwe to Lake Ncovi	123	(18)
From Ncovi to Esoon	141	(27)
From Esoon to Agonjo	168	(9)
Bush Trade and Fan Customs	177	(15)
Down the Rembwe	192	(12)
Fetish	204	(20)
Fetish---(continued)	224	(17)
Fetish---(continued)	241	(14)
Fetish---(continued)	255	(12)
Fetish---(concluded)	267	(19)
Ascent of the Great Peak of Cameroons	286	(11)
Ascent of the Great Peak of Cameroons---(continued)	297	(11)
The Great Peak of Cameroons---(continued)	308	(8)
The Great Peak of Cameroons---(continued)	316	(12)
Trade and Labour in West Africa	328	(44)
Disease in West Africa	372	(10)
Appendix. The Invention of the Cloth Loom	382	(2)
Notes	384