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First Published in 1968. This volume combines 'In the Niger Country' with 'Benin The Surrounding Country, Inhabitant, Customs and Trade'. Giving details and accounts of the regions and inhabitants, the Battle of Weima, Liberia, the Gold Coast, Salt and Gin trade, Lagos, and missionary influence to name a few.
List of contents
In early days; on the way to the Niger - Teneriffe and Sierra Leone; the battle of Weima; Liberia and the beaches of the Kroo country; the Gold Coast colony and Dahomey; Lagos and the Niger mouths; Akassa; the raiding of Akassa; a burnt village; the inland reaches of the Niger; in Forcados river; on the way to Warri; Warri; the slave-trade and the Ju-Ju system; at new Benin; new Benin; the rise and fall of Nana; Sapelli; down the Sapelli river; on the Brass river; a funeral in the delta; missionary influence; Bonny and Opobo; the opposite ends of the Niger; the evolution of the black trader and his merchandise; rubber-gathering; farewell to the Niger.
About the author
Harold Bindloss was an English novelist who published a number of adventure tales set in western Canada, as well as in England and West Africa. His writing was mostly based on his own experiences as a seaman, dock worker, farmer, and planter. Bindloss was born on April 6, 1866 in Wavertree, Liverpool, England. The eldest son of Edward Williams Bindloss, an iron dealer who employed six men at the time of the 1881 census. Bindloss has three sisters and four brothers. He spent several years at sea and in several colonies, most notably in Africa, before returning to England in 1896, his health ravaged by malaria. He appears to have started out as a clerk in a shipping office, but this did not suit his adventurous nature, and he later became a farmer in Canada, a sailor, a dock worker, and a planter. He returned to England in 1896, likely from West Africa, afflicted with malaria. Given that he spent more than a decade at sea and in the colonies, it is likely that his time overseas was divided into two parts: first as a youth, and then as a young man after 1891.
Summary
First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
