Each Of These Forms Of Government Have Their
Good Points And Their Bad.
Each of them are dealing with bits of
Africa differing from each other - in the nature of their inhabitants
and their formation, and so on - so I will not enter into any
comparison of them here.
From the deck of the Niger I found myself again confronted with my
great temptation - the magnificent Mungo Mah Lobeh - the Throne of
Thunder. Now it is none of my business to go up mountains. There's
next to no fish on them in West Africa, and precious little good
rank fetish, as the population on them is sparse - the African, like
myself, abhorring cool air. Nevertheless, I feel quite sure that no
white man has ever looked on the great Peak of Cameroon without a
desire arising in his mind to ascend it and know in detail the
highest point on the western side of the continent, and indeed one
of the highest points in all Africa.
So great is the majesty and charm of this mountain that the
temptation of it is as great to me to-day as it was on the first day
I saw it, when I was feeling my way down the West Coast of Africa on
the S.S. Lagos in 1893, and it revealed itself by good chance from
its surf-washed plinth to its skyscraping summit. Certainly it is
most striking when you see it first, as I first saw it, after
coasting for weeks along the low shores and mangrove-fringed rivers
of the Niger Delta.
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