The King of the Jarawa Pagans dancing in Honour of the Author’s Visit. The accompaniment is by his Court band in State uniform ” 250 A Naked Pagan riding his pony barebacked ” 256 Pagan Horsemen ” 256 Bukuru Sign Language ” 258 Mr S. E. M. Stobart, the Resident at Bukuru, and His Staff ” 268 Bukuru Residency ” 268 Pagan Feminine Fashions ” 270 A Pagan Beauty of the Dass Tribe ” 272 A Girl of the Jarawa Tribe. The cuts in the face are made when she reaches the age of puberty ” 272 Jarawa Pagans. The marks are produced by the flesh being cut and charcoal placed in the incision ” 276 Signalled message _Page_ 290 A Beri-Beri Woman with an elaborate headdress _Facing page_ 290 Swearing in a Pagan and a Mohamedan for the Northern Nigeria Regiment ” 290 Hausa Boy playing the molah, a kind of banjo ” 298 Fiddle with Strings and Bow of Horse-hair rubbed with Gum ” 298 Hausa House-Building with Grass. The foundation ” 310 The Finished Mansion. It is put up, including cutting the grass, in a couple of hours ” 310 Manicure. The fee is twenty cowries, i.e., about one-fourteenth of a penny ” 338 A Nupé Pilot on the Niger ” 338 A European Trading Station on the Niger ” 342 On a Creek of the Niger ” 342 The Niger Company’s Wharf at Burutu ” 348 Shipping Palm-oil for Direct Transit to Liverpool ” 348 THROUGH UNKNOWN NIGERIA CHAPTER I OUTWARD BOUND Call of the Coast—Mal-de-mer—Coasters afloat—From 78° to 90°—The Kru sailor—His civilised degeneration—Laundryman’s discipline—A dangerous stretch—The skipper—From ship to train. What induces that mysterious, elusive “call to the Coast” to which few who have been to West Africa remain unresponsive? None deny its existence, even those who remain unaffected. Yet no conclusive answer has been given for a strange, fascinating attraction to revisit a part of the world which is regarded as uninviting. The “call” cannot be one of mere novelty, for it is only men and women who have lived in West Africa—perhaps suffered there—who are impelled to return, in spite of its drawbacks and talked-of risks, some real, some unduly and unnecessarily magnified.