18 FEOM THE NIGER TO THE NILE 



with him John, our excellent Senegalese cook, we set sail 

 from Liverpool on February 27, 1904, on board the s.s. 

 Olenda and arrived at Forcados, the mouth of the Niger, 

 on March 18, The Olenda, owing to the strong current, 

 overshot the river mouth in the night by over thirty miles 

 and had to beat back. We then transhipped into a branch 

 boat which took us into the roads, where all our baggage, 

 some 400 loads, was transferred the next morning to a 

 Government stern wheeler for our journey up the Niger to 

 Lokoja. 



