Category: Travel Writing
West Africa, as some of us have known her, is rapidly changing. Within the memory of most men, there were deserts uncrossed, forests unexplored, tribes of people unknown. To-day every desert has been traversed; to-day we know not only the forests, but nearly every species of t...
West Africa, as some of us have known her, is rapidly changing. Within the memory of most men, there were deserts uncrossed, forests unexplored, tribes of people unknown. To-day...
6. PART II.—The African “Porter.” II.—The Paddler and his Canoe. III.—The African Forest. IV.—A Medley of Customs:— (_a_) Cicatrization. (_b_) Personal Adornment. (_c_) “The Angel of Dea...
7. PART III.—The White Man’s Burden. II.—Lightening the White Man’s Burden. III.—Governments and Commerce. IV.—The Liquor Traffic. V.—The Educated Native. VI.—Justice and the African. VII...
8. PART IIIEverywhere in West Africa the cry goes up, “Give us more labour.” The British, German, Portuguese and French merchants all declare that if only they could get the labour, they m...
9. PART IVWith the date palm we have been long familiar, the cocoa-nut palm likewise, and those too which decorate our ball-rooms, galleries and banqueting halls, we greet as delightsome...
10. PART VFor some months past eminent publicists in Europe have been busily engaged in rearranging the map of Africa in the interests first of one Power, then of another, but the unfortu...