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the fact that in the former country the hills in question are 

 steeper and the terraces broader, than those which we 

 noticed in Nigeria. 



Dugurh stands at the foot of Mount Ampang, which is 



TERRACE CULTIVATION ON MOUNT AMPANG 



over 4000 ft. high. We climbed this and found a large 

 plateau at the top covered with populous villages. It was 

 wonderful to see the way in which every inch of the ground 

 was cultivated. Even spaces not more than a square foot 

 in area, where a little soil had been collected, had been 

 planted with millet or guinea corn, which is the ordinary 

 food of the people throughout the country. Two or three 

 hundred men surrounded us on our arrival and stayed gazing 

 at us for hours without seeming to grow tired. They were 

 a sturdy lot and very communicative. The Angoss women 



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