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Excerpt from Batanga Tales
The special region from which these observations are derived is the equatorial portion of West Africa, more locally a tract three hundred miles square, the field of work on which I was engaged in the service of the Presbyterian church (north), its only mission on the entire African Continent.
Beginning near the line of the equator, my travels extended a hundred miles south of it, to and below Cape Lopez. In this district were many small streams entering the South Atlantic, and two large ones, - the Gabun 2 and the Ogowe.3 The latter enters the ocean by four mouths, to the northward, the Nazareth, into Nazareth Bay; Ogowe proper, at Cape Lopez; and, south of that cape, the Mexias and the Fernan Vaz. The first two enclose a delta, whose apex is a hundred and thirty miles up the course of the river.
Exactly one degree north of the equator is the island of Corisco, a microcosm of five miles in length by three miles in width, with perfect little imitations of hills, prairies, lakes, and rivers. It stands almost in the centre of Corisco Bay, from fifteen to twenty miles distant from the shoreline. Into the bay empty two rivers of good size, the Muni 4 and the Munda.
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