Ways of the rivers: arts and environment of the Niger Delta. (exhibition preview).

African Arts | March 22, 2002| | Copyright

The universal stillness of the scene was very imposing; unbroken as it was by any sound, save the dashing of our own paddle-wheels, and the clear musical cry of the leadsman ... The large and umbrageous trees, with their festoons of Orchidae and purple and white Convolvuli hanging from the branches, formed a combination of forest scenery, so striking, novel, and interesting, as enabled us to forget that the much-talked-of Delta of the Niger had been fairly entered upon ...

(Capt. William Allen in Allen & Thomson 1848:178-85)

For Captain William Allen's ...

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