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Ishan. — This country is undulating and badly watered ; bush prevails over 

 two-thirds of the district. The River Osiomo, in the south-west, and the 

 Attowar, which rises at Ubiaja and joins the Niger at Illah, are navigable for 

 canoes, the latter however only as far as Evua, a distance of some thirteen 

 miles from Ubiaja. 



Game is said to be abundant, and includes elephant, bush-cow, red river 

 hog, kob, hippopotamus, roan antelope, bush-buck, water-buck and leopard. 

 Glossina palpalis has been recorded from the district, but the information lacks 

 preciseness. 



(5) Awka, Udi and Okwoga. 



The last group includes the three above-mentioned districts, which all lie east 

 and north of Onitsha. 



Awka. — The country is undulating ; in the north-east there are high hills 

 and small plateaux. The towns are, as a rule, surrounded by bush, but the 

 country between the towns is open. In the north there are extensive grassy 

 plains and the area of bush diminishes. The only navigable water-ways are 

 the Omerun River and the Anambra River. 



" The domestic live-stock consists of cattle, sheep and goats. The cattle are 

 a very good example of the African type, and some towns possess considerable 

 herds. Goats are plentiful, but sheep scarcer. No definite evidence that tsetse- 

 fly occurs is in existence, but the mortality amongst horses is probably due to it. 

 Game is not plentiful. Hippopotami are found in the rivers and creeks in 

 considerable numbers. Deer [sic] are to be found in the north. Bush- cow are 

 found in fair numbers in the northern part of the district near the rivers." 

 (H. N. Thomson.) 



Udi. — The country is for the most part hilly, with open stretches covered with 

 grass and patches of thick bush, in which the natives build their towns. These 

 patches are generally from five to seven miles long and one to three miles 

 wide (cf. the " kurimi " of Northern Nigeria). Various species of buck occur, 

 and in the northern part elephant and leopard are to be found. 



Ohwoga. — This district has only recently been opened up, and little or nothing 

 is yet known about it. 



(c) The Eastern Province. 



The Eastern Province is situated to the south and east of the Central Province 

 and extends inland from the Bight of Biafra to the southern boundary of Northern 

 Nigeria. On the east it is bounded by the German Colony of Kamerun and on 

 the west by the Central Province of Southern Nigeria. Its area is over 

 29,000 square miles, and it has a population of over two millions. 



In the west the country is, generally speaking, flat and much intersected by 

 creeks. The eastern portion is undulating, and in the extreme eastern part 

 becomes hilly. From the sea-board up to about the sixth parallel the forest belt 

 prevails, and thence northward grass country is met with. 



This province has three distinct river systems although, as has been already 

 pointed out, in the coast area these are connected by a system of creeks. The 



