Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I LIVERPOOL TO SIERRA LEONE
- CHAPTER II THE GOLD COAST
- CHAPTER III FERNANDO PO AND THE BUBIS
- CHAPTER IV LAGOS BAR
- CHAPTER V VOYAGE DOWN COAST
- CHAPTER VI LIBREVILLE AND GLASS
- CHAPTER VII THE OGOWÉ
- CHAPTER VIII TALAGOUGA
- CHAPTER IX THE RAPIDS OF THE OGOWÉ
- CHAPTER X LEMBARENE
- CHAPTER XI FROM KANGWE TO LAKE NCOVI
- CHAPTER XII FROM NCOVI TO ESOON
- CHAPTER XIII FROM ESOON TO AGONJO
- CHAPTER XIV BUSH TRADE AND FAN CUSTOMS
- CHAPTER XV DOWN THE REMBWÉ
- CHAPTER XVI CONGO FRANÇAIS
- CHAPTER XVII THE LOG OF THE Lafayette
- CHAPTER XVIII FROM CORISCO TO GABOON
- CHAPTER XIX FETISH
- CHAPTER XX FETISH—(Continued)
- CHAPTER XXI FETISH—(Continued)
- CHAPTER XXII FETISH—(Continued)
- CHAPTER XXIII FETISH—(Concluded)
- CHAPTER XXIV ASCENT OF THE GREAT PEAK OF CAMEROONS
- CHAPTER XXV ASCENT OF THE GREAT PEAK OF CAMEROONS—(Continued)
- CHAPTER XXVI THE GREAT PEAK OF CAMEROONS—(Continued)
- CHAPTER XXVII THE GREAT PEAK OF CAMEROONS—(Concluded)
- CHAPTER XXVIII THE ISLANDS IN THE BAY OF AMBOISES
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
CHAPTER IX - THE RAPIDS OF THE OGOWÉ
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I LIVERPOOL TO SIERRA LEONE
- CHAPTER II THE GOLD COAST
- CHAPTER III FERNANDO PO AND THE BUBIS
- CHAPTER IV LAGOS BAR
- CHAPTER V VOYAGE DOWN COAST
- CHAPTER VI LIBREVILLE AND GLASS
- CHAPTER VII THE OGOWÉ
- CHAPTER VIII TALAGOUGA
- CHAPTER IX THE RAPIDS OF THE OGOWÉ
- CHAPTER X LEMBARENE
- CHAPTER XI FROM KANGWE TO LAKE NCOVI
- CHAPTER XII FROM NCOVI TO ESOON
- CHAPTER XIII FROM ESOON TO AGONJO
- CHAPTER XIV BUSH TRADE AND FAN CUSTOMS
- CHAPTER XV DOWN THE REMBWÉ
- CHAPTER XVI CONGO FRANÇAIS
- CHAPTER XVII THE LOG OF THE Lafayette
- CHAPTER XVIII FROM CORISCO TO GABOON
- CHAPTER XIX FETISH
- CHAPTER XX FETISH—(Continued)
- CHAPTER XXI FETISH—(Continued)
- CHAPTER XXII FETISH—(Continued)
- CHAPTER XXIII FETISH—(Concluded)
- CHAPTER XXIV ASCENT OF THE GREAT PEAK OF CAMEROONS
- CHAPTER XXV ASCENT OF THE GREAT PEAK OF CAMEROONS—(Continued)
- CHAPTER XXVI THE GREAT PEAK OF CAMEROONS—(Continued)
- CHAPTER XXVII THE GREAT PEAK OF CAMEROONS—(Concluded)
- CHAPTER XXVIII THE ISLANDS IN THE BAY OF AMBOISES
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
The Log of an Adooma canoe during a voyage undertaken to the rapids of the River Ogowé, with some account of the divers disasters that befell thereon.
I establish myself on my portmanteau comfortably in the canoe, my back is against the trade box, and behind that is the usual mound of pillows, sleeping mats, and mosquito-bars of the Igalwa crew; the whole surmounted by the French flag flying from an indifferent stick.
M. and Mme. Forget provide me with everything I can possibly require, and say, that the blood of half my crew is half alcohol; on the whole it is patent they don't expect to see me again, and I forgive them, because they don't seem cheerful over it; but still it is not reassuring—nothing is about this affair, and it's going to rain. It does, as we go up the river to Njole, where there is another risk of the affair collapsing, by the French authorities declining to allow me to proceed. On we paddled, M'bo the head man standing in the bows of the canoe in front of me, to steer, then I, then the baggage, then the able-bodied seamen, including the cook also standing and paddling; and at the other extremity of the canoe—it grieves me to speak of it in this unseamanlike way, but in these canoes both ends are alike, and chance alone ordains which is bow and which is stern—stands Pierre, the first officer, also steering; the paddles used are all of the long-handled, leaf-shaped Igalwa type.
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- Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons , pp. 166 - 191Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010