30 Mr. C. O. Farquharson’s Five Years’ Observations 
I must now catch the mail. Port Harcourt you may not 
be able to find on the map, but it is located on a creek that 
enters the sea at Bonny, and is, I suppose, about 40 miles 
north of that place. It is one of the most important places 
in Nigeria, being the terminus of the new Eastern Railway 
which runs up to the Udi coalfield. An account of the 
latter you will find, I think, in a fairly recent issue (not 
more than 12 months old, I think) of the ‘‘ Bulletin of the 
Imperial Institute.” Part of its way, the railway taps 
districts enormously rich in oil-palms. Quite large cargo 
steamers (up to 7000 tons, at any rate) can come up here. 
Within a stone’s throw of where I am now two considerable 
vessels are loading up coal and oil. Nigeria is undoubtedly 
a great imperial asset, and yet one meets people at home 
who have the vaguest notion of where it is on the map, or 
who think it is a part of Sierra Leone, a place called the 
White Man’s Grave. I have even seen a review of our 
Department's annual report in an important paper, headed 
“ Agriculture on the Gold Coast” !!_ I wonder if the Germans 
were as hazy about the Cameroons. I hope I may be able 
to make a little of it known to naturalists if only I could 
get a little more leisure. 
Moor Plantation. 
Dec. 9, 1917.—One of the boxes (for I sent two) contains 
the first batch of the new Decatoma facies of which I wrote 
you at Port Harcourt. I had to pack the specimens 
hastily on a false rumour of the mail going, but I hope 
enough will reach you intact for diagnostic purposes. I 
have kept some in reserve, but some of the larger forms I 
cannot replace. There are two which differ from all the 
others and from each other [Mylabris afzelii Bilb.]. They 
are the only ones I could get. I will first tell you where to 
find the places on the map. If you can find Onitsha on 
the Niger, well up towards the boundary between N. and 
S. Nigeria, the rest will be easy. Due east from Onitsha 
(22 miles by road) is the town of Awka. Still going east- 
ward and a very little north you will find Udi, which is 
rather over 30 miles from Awka. Udi Government station 
is about 1200 to 1500 feet above sea-level. You will see 
that the road from Awka crosses a range of hills at Udi— 
the range running due N. and 8. About 11 miles east of 
Udi is the new Nigerian Eastern Railway, not shown even 
on fairly recent maps. If you follow the ridge of hills 
northwards, about 12 to 15 miles, perhaps, direct and a 
little to the east, you will see a place called Enugu Ngwo. 
