First published in 1855, this is an account of a British government-financed expedition to further European commercial interests in West Africa. It details the surveying of sites for future missions which has a profound effect on the history of Southern Nigeria.

Excerpt from Journal of an Expedition Up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers: Undertaken by Macgregor Laird, Esq., In Connection With the British Government, in 1854 About the time when the earlier sheets of The Journal were passing through the press, rumours had reached this country that Dr. Barth had lost his life in Africa; and hence the doubt re specting him expressed in a note, which will be found in p. 19. Dr. Barth, happily, has since returned to this country in safety. While the Expedition was up the Tshadda he was at a consider able distance in the interior. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

First Published in 1965. This book recounts Nigeria under British rule and is dedicated by the author to Mr Joseph Chamberlain who was Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1895 to 1903. It includes the areas of Lagos and the Niger coast as revenue generators, the Niger Delta Protectorate, the Royal Niger Company, and Amalgamated Nigeria from 1914.

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