# A Resident's wife in Nigeria

Author: Larymore, Constance Belcher

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74070

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+Resident%27s+wife+in+Nigeria+Larymore&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

On the 10th of April, 1902, we left Sierra Leone, embarking on the _Sekondi_ for Forcados, _en route_ to Northern Nigeria. We had spent seven months in Sierra Leone, my husband doing duty with a company of native gunners, and had grown to heartily dislike the place. In spite of its undeniable beauty, it is the possessor of a most unpleasant climate, and the impossibility of getting horse exercise, and the necessity of continually ascending or descending steep hills, either on foot, or, worse still, in a hammock, was most distasteful to us both after four years of the free and active life of Indian military stations. So we could not help looking upon our departure somewhat as a release, an...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-resident-s-wife-in-nigeria-74070/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-resident-s-wife-in-nigeria-74070/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-resident-s-wife-in-nigeria-74070/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-resident-s-wife-in-nigeria-74070/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-resident-s-wife-in-nigeria-74070/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-resident-s-wife-in-nigeria-74070/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-resident-s-wife-in-nigeria-74070/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-resident-s-wife-in-nigeria-74070/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-resident-s-wife-in-nigeria-74070/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-resident-s-wife-in-nigeria-74070/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-resident-s-wife-in-nigeria-74070/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-resident-s-wife-in-nigeria-74070/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-resident-s-wife-in-nigeria-74070/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-resident-s-wife-in-nigeria-74070/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-resident-s-wife-in-nigeria-74070/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-resident-s-wife-in-nigeria-74070/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-resident-s-wife-in-nigeria-74070/chapters/10/index.md)