These Are No Relations Of Mungo, Being Of Very Different
Structure And Conformation; The Geological Specimens I Have Brought
From Them And From The Cameroons Being Identified By Geologists As
Respectively Schistose Grit And Vesicular Lava.
After spending a few pleasant days in Cameroon River in the society
of Frau Plehn, my poor friend Mrs.
Duggan having, I regret to say,
departed for England on the death of her husband, I went round to
Victoria, Ambas Bay, on the Niger, and in spite of being advised
solemnly by Captain Davies to "chuck it as it was not a picnic," I
started to attempt the Peak of Cameroons as follows.
September 20th, 1895. - Left Victoria at 7.30, weather fine. Herr
von Lucke, though sadly convinced, by a series of experiments he has
been carrying on ever since I landed, and I expect before, that you
cannot be in three places at one time, is still trying to do so; or
more properly speaking he starts an experiment series for four
places, man-like, instead of getting ill as I should under the
circumstances, and he kindly comes with me as far as the bridge
across the lovely cascading Lukole River, and then goes back at
about seven miles an hour to look after Victoria and his sick
subordinates in detail.
I, with my crew, keep on up the grand new road the Government is
making, which when finished is to go from Ambas Bay to Buea, 3,000
feet up on the mountain's side.
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