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Identifier: makingofnorthern00orrc (find matches)
Title: The making of Northern Nigeria
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Orr, Charles William James, 1870-
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Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., limited
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Ouf/me of CENTRAL AFIllCA. fSJiaoiru^ the 6euise iOstmtwstfi TerminttUow (rf die C5KIR « NIGEIR. .AcconUn/f toTbilemy. Compiled by Lull: Gen-SirJf^aneBonkin For liis Disstirtatioii^fu-a 6. i/129 LaxLcbm: HkctmllAiL & Co,, Ltd., I INTRODUCTION 7 Coast in 1830, and, marching inland by the routepreviously followed, embarked in a native canoe andbegan his voyage down stream. A month later theyfound themselves drifting in a southerly direction, andreached a point where the waters of the Niger werejoined by another large river, called by the natives theBinu^ or Benu4 flowing in from the eastward. Thebanks of the river were now hilly, unlike the flat plainsthrough which they had been passing, and there werefew villages. Everything was silent and solitary/writes Lander ; no sound could be distinguished, saveour own voices and the plashing of the paddles withtheir echoes: the song of birds was not heard, norcould any animal whatever be seen, and the banksseemed to be entirely deserted and

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