This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...plateau projects to the sea-shore, leaving no coastal plain and consequently no lagoons; the plateau yields gold; the forests yield the usual products. Cape Coast Castle, first settled in 1661 by the Dutch, is the old capital and chief port. Accra, on a healthier site, is a growing export town and now the seat of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...plateau projects to the sea-shore, leaving no coastal plain and consequently no lagoons; the plateau yields gold; the forests yield the usual products. Cape Coast Castle, first settled in 1661 by the Dutch, is the old capital and chief port. Accra, on a healthier site, is a growing export town and now the seat of government. The Gold Coast settlement now extends back, under the name of Ashanti, for 400 miles. The Volta river (navigable) first forms the western boundary, then bisects the colony, and afterwards serves for a considerable distance as the eastern frontier. Kumasi, the capital of Ashanti, occupied by the British since 1873, is now joined by rail to the port of Sekondi. Next in order follow German Togoland and French Dahomey, narrow strips of country lying between Ashanti and Nigeria. The Slave Coast of the traders includes the sea-front of these territories, together with the British settlements on the Bight of Benin, west of the swamp-delta of the Niger. Lagos was the earliest British station (1861, Crown Colony 1886), and from it, as a base, British influence has extended over the whole region of the Lower Niger and its equally navigable affluent, the Benue, until now it reaches as far as Lake Chad. The whole region is included under the general term Nigeria. It is one of the most densely peopled regions of the world. At least five cities, each with a population of over 50,000, all negroes, occur between Lagos and the confluence of the Benue. Sokoto, Kano and Kuka are centres of population beyond the Niger and its affluent; they are all termini of caravan routes--marts of exchange between Arabs and Negroes--and possess Arab characteristics. Their mud walls were erected as protection against slave-raiding Arabs. The Lower Niger is thus in the ha...
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