Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1910 — The Forests of the Niger. [ARTICLE]

The Forests of the Niger.

The insects of Africa are expert dls ease carriers, and they come in such numbers on the Niger that one hardly dares to use one’s lamp or go too near a light of any sort at night. These forests on the Niger are deadly places for all their haunting attraction und take a big toll both of European and native life. Yet the first three days on the . Niger, with all Its mud and its smell and Its mangrove files and Its frogs and Its crlcKhts, are enough to. give the newcomer an Inkling of the drawing power, the fascination, of what is probably the most unhealthy country In the world. —W. B. Thompson in Blackwood’s.