CHAPTER XII. 
CORISCO—“ home” TO FERNANDO PO. 
N April 22 nd, after some five weeks 
in the Gaboon River, I found myself 
once more in her Majesty’s steam-ship 
“ Griffon,” which had returned from the 
south coast, bound for Corisco (Gorilla Island ?) 
and Fernando Po. It was “ going-away day,” when 
proverbially the world looks prettier than usual, 
and we enjoyed the suggestive view of the beaded 
line which, seen from the sea, represents the 
Sierra del Crystal. The distance from Le Plateau 
to the Isle of Lightning was only thirty-five miles, 
from the nearest continent ten, and before the 
evening tornado broke from the south-east, here 
the normal direction, we were lying in the roads 
about two miles from the landing-place. The 
anchorage is known by bringing Mbanya (Little 
Corisco), the smaller and southern outlier in a line 
between Laval Islet and the main island. 
The frequent coruscations gave a name to 
