Le Plateau , 
1 2 
Wilson (“Western Africa,” p. 254) says by force 
of arms, but that is probably an exaggeration. To 
bring our history to an end, the sons of Japheth 
overcame the children of Ham, and, as the 
natives said, “Toko he muss love Frenchman, 
all but out of ( 'anglice ‘ in ’) his heart.” 
As in the streets of Paris, so in every French 
city at home and abroad, 
“ Verborum vetus interit setas,” 
and an old colonial chart often reads like a lesson 
in modern history. Here we still find under the 
Empire the Constitutional Monarchy of 1842-3. 
Mount Bouet leads to Fort “Aumale:”- Point 
Joinville, at the north jaw of the river, faces Cap 
Montagnies : Parrot has become “ Adelaide,” and 
Coniquet “ Orleans” Island. Indeed the love of 
Louis-Philippe’s family has lingered in many a 
corner where one would least expect to meet it, 
and in 1869 I found “ Port Saeed ” a hot-bed of 
Orleanism. 
The hotel verandah was crowded with the 
minor officials, the surgeons, and the clerks of the 
comptoir, drinking absinthe and colicky vermouth, 
smoking veritable “weeds,” playing at dominoes, 
and contending who could talk longest and loudest. 
1 Rev. J. Leighton Wilson of the Presbyterian Mission, 
eighteen years in Africa, “ Western Africa,” &c. New York. 
Harpers, 1856. 
