Category: Adventure
_Hereditary taste for wandering--A first adventure--“Little girls you must not be tired”--How Carlo was captured by savages in West Africa--Life in Ballarat--Nothing for a woman to do but marry--Marriage--Plans for wandering twenty years hence--Life in Warrnambool--Widowhood--...
_Rejoicing-, half-eastern and wholly tropical, on arrival of the Governor--Colonies governed and held as the Romans held their colonies of Britain--Great g-ulf between the black...
8. CHAPTER VIII--ALONE IN WEST AFRICA_Cinderella--A troubled Commissioner--Few people along the Coast--No hotels--Nursing Sister to the rescue--Sekondi--A little log-rolling--A harassed hedge--Carriers--Difficultie...
4. CHAPTER IV--WHERE THE BLACK MAN RULES_America's experiment in the way of nation-making--Exiles in their mothers' land--The forlorn little company on Providence Island--Difficulties of landing and finding accommodat...
23. CHAPTER XXIII--IN THE HEART OF THE RUBBER COUNTRY_Bound for Sunyani--The awe-inspiring-forest--The road through the forest--The people upon that road--Ofinsu and an Ashanti house--Rather a public bedroom--Potsikrom--A night of...
10. CHAPTER X--IN THE PATHS OF THE MEN OF OLD_The glory of the morning--The men who have passed along this road--The strong views of the African pig--An old-world Castle--Thieving carriers--The superiority of the white man...
18. CHAPTER XVIII--KETA ON THE SAND_The safety of the seashore--Why they do not plant trees in English territory--The D.C.'s prayer--Quittah or Keta--The Bremen Sisters--The value of fresh air as a preventive of...
19. CHAPTER XIX--FACING DEATH_The Spanish nuns--One of the loneliest settlements in West Africa--Hospitality and swamp--A capable English woman--A big future in store for Addah--The mosquitoes of Addah--The...
14. CHAPTER XIV--INTO THE WILDS_Anum Mountain--The Basel Mission--A beautiful spot--An old Ashanti raid--A desolate rest-house--Alone and afraid; also hungry--A long night--Jakai--Pekki Blengo--The unspeakabl...
6. CHAPTER VI--THE KING'S HIGHWAY_The burying of the village dead--For Ju-ju--The glory of the morning--The catastrophes by the way--The cook is condemned to death--Redeemed for two shillings--The thunderous su...
21. CHAPTER XXI--THE WEST-AFRICAN GOLDFIELDS_A first adventure--Tarkwa--Once more Swanzy to the rescue--Women thoroughly contented, independent, and well-to-do--The agricultural wealth of the land--The best bungalow in We...
11. CHAPTER XI--THE CAPITAL OF THE GOLD COAST COLONY_The pains and penalties of landing in Accra--Negro officials, blatant, pompous, inefficient--Christiansborg Castle--The ghost of the man with eyes like bright stones--The impor...
13. CHAPTER XIII--THE FEAR THAT SKULKED BENEATH THE MANGO TREE_Up the Volta--Svvanzy's trusting agent at Akuse--Amedika, the port of Akuse on the Volta--The trials of a trolley ride--My canoe--Paddling up-river--Rapids that raise the river...
25. CHAPTER XXV--THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES_The enormous wealth of West Africa--The waste--The need of some settled scheme--Competitive examination for the West-African Civil Service--The men who come after the pioneers-...
12. CHAPTER XII--BLOOD FETISH OF KROBO HILL_To Dodowah by motor lorry--Orchard-bush country--Negro tortures--The Basel Mission factor--A personally conducted tour--Great hospitality--A dinner by moonlight--Plan a night j...
22. CHAPTER XXII--A NEW TRADING CENTRE_The siege of Kumasi--The Governor in 1900--The rebellion--The friendlies under the walls of the fort--The Ashanti warrior of ten years ago and the trader of to-day--The chances...
16. CHAPTER XVI--ONE OF THE CURSES OF THE DARK CONTINENT_The neat little town of Palime--The market--The breakfast--A luxury for the well-to-do--Mount Klutow--The German Sleeping Sickness Camp--The German's consideration for the hamm...
24. CHAPTER XXIV--AN OUTPOST_The white men at Sunyani--Contrast between civilisation and barbarism--The little fort--The suffrage movement--“I am as mud in the sight of my people!”--The girl who did not wi...
9. CHAPTER IX--AN OLD DUTCH TOWN_But one man of the ruling race--Overlooked Elmina--Deadly fever--The reason why--Magnificent position--Ideal for a capital--Absence of tsetse--Loyal to their Dutch masters--Dif...
1. CHAPTER I--SONS OF THE SEA WIFE_Hereditary taste for wandering--A first adventure--“Little girls you must not be tired”--How Carlo was captured by savages in West Africa--Life in Ballarat--Nothing for a woman...
5. CHAPTER V--THE GUINEA COAST_Every man's duty--“Three deaths in two days”--An old Portuguese settlement--A troubled District Commissioner--What to do with a wandering white woman--The Judge's quarters--The...
15. CHAPTER XV--CROSSING THE BORDER_German roads--German villages--The lovely valley of Ho--The kindly German welcome--German hospitality--An ideal woman colonist--Pink roses--The way it rains in Togo--An unfortu...
7. CHAPTER VII--ON THE FRENCH BORDER_Very heavy going---Half Assinie--The preventive service station--The energetic officer--Dislike of Africa--The Tano River--The enterprising crocodiles--The mahogany logs--Wicke...
3. CHAPTER III--THE WHITE MAN'S GRAVE?_The origin of Sierra Leone--The difficulties of disposing of freed slaves--One of the beauty-spots of the earth--Is it possible that in the future, like Jamaica, it may be a he...
17. CHAPTER XVII--GERMAN VERSUS ENGLISH METHODS_Lome, the capital of Togo--A bad situation but the best laid-out town on the Coast--Avenues of trees--Promising gardens--The simple plan by which the Germans ensure the making...
20. CHAPTER XX--WITH A COMPANION_The kindness of Sekondi--Swanzy's to the rescue--A journey to Dixcove--With a nursing Sister--The rainy season and wet feet--Engineering a steep hill in the dark--Rains and bri...