Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

CHAPTER XXII. DISEASE IN WEST AFRICA.

APPENDIX. THE INVENTION OF THE CLOTH LOOM.

PREFACE

TO THE READER.--What this book wants is not a simple Preface but an apology, and a very brilliant and convincing one at that. Recognising this fully, and feeling quite incompetent to write such a masterpiece, I have asked several literary friends to write one for me, but t...