CONTENTS OF VOLUME I 



CHAPTER I 



Introduction 



Object, constitution, and equipment of expedition, with details regarding outfit, trade 

 goods, and medicines, &c. — The qualifications of explorers for tbeir different lines 

 of enterprise — Difficulties to get leave of absence — Arrival of expedition at 

 mouth of Niger Pp. 1-18 



CHAPTER II 



Our Journey up the Niger and Benue 



The putting together of the steel boats — Journey up the Benue, with descriptions of 

 the life on the river — Arrival at Ibi — Getting the survey instruments into work- 

 ing order — Hunting in the neighbourhood — The prowess of the Munchi in 

 killing game — The crocodile pool — Slave traffic — Tsetse fly — Difficulties of survey 

 — Success at last . . Pp. 19-47 



CHAPTER III 



A Lion Hunt 



Beacon fires at Serikin Kudu — Kumours of lions — On the track of the man-eaters — 

 We find the lion — The lion finds us — Death of the lion — The autopsy — An attack 

 of black-water fever — Jose's ride for aid — My recovery — Carried into Ibi — Start 

 of the boats for the river Gongola ; and of the survey party for Northern 

 Nigeria Pp. 48-67 



CHAPTER IV 



With the Survey Party to the Murchison Range 



Details of the work — Description of the country and inhabitants met with — Sickness 

 attacks both members of the party — In hospital at Wase— The famous Wase 

 Rock Pp. 68-87 



CHAPTER V 



The Survey Continued to Ashaka 



Trouble withthe Montoil pagans — Famine — The wonderfulKerri-Kerri country — The 

 release of two slave girls Pp. 88-121 



