A British officer sets out from the Sierra Leone railway with carriers and a servant, crossing bush and grass country to the sources of the Niger, the Anglo-French frontier and on to Timbuctu and the Sahara. He notes Poro and Bundu secret societies, burial rites, the Harmattan, hunting, and leopards raiding the sheep-pens.
A vivid record of West Africa in the colonial era, its attitudes very much those of its time. Download the free EPUB.