{455} The Bristol Ships On The Half
Jack Coast Are Not Rivals, But A Sort Of Floating Factories,
Shipping Their Stuff Home And Getting It Out By The Regular Lines Of
Steamers.
The English and German liners therefore carry the bulk of
the trade from the whole Coast.
Their services are complicated and
frequent, but perfectly simple when you have grasped the fact that
the English lines may be divided into two sub-divisions - Liverpool
boats and Hamburg boats, either of which are liable when occasion
demands to call at Havre. The Liverpool line is the mail line to
the more important ports, the Hamburg line being almost entirely
composed of cargo vessels calling at the smaller ports as well as
the larger.
There is another classification that must be grasped. The English
boats being divided into, firstly, a line having its terminus at
Sierra Leone and calling at the Isles do Los; secondly, a line
having its terminus at Akassa; thirdly, a line having its terminus
at Old Calabar; fourthly, a line having its terminus at San Paul de
Loanda, and in addition, a direct line from Antwerp to the Congo,
chartered by the Congo Free State Government. Division 4, the
South-westers, are the quickest vessels as far as Lagos, for they
only call at the Canaries, Sierra Leone, off the Kru Coast, at
Accra, and off Lagos; then they run straight from Lagos into
Cameroons, without touching the Rivers, reaching Cameroons in
twenty-seven days from Liverpool.
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