I am making a short stay at Zungeru; but perhaps it will make a better connected narrative if a few additional railway particulars are given now. Midday the train leaves for Minna, which is its destination. A journey straight ahead can be made by ordinary train to Kano, 282 miles from Zungeru. The traveller for the tin fields in the Bauchi and the Nassarawa Provinces will alight at Zaria, 90 miles south of Kano. From Zaria, the Bauchi Light Railway will in seven hours take him the 88½ miles to Rahama railhead. Appended are the through fares by the boat train, including sleeping accommodation and attendance: £ s. d. Lagos to Ibadan 3 0 6 ” ” Zungeru 6 7 3 ” ” Zaria 8 12 4 ” ” Rahama 9 14 7 ” ” Kano 9 14 10 First-class passengers by the boat train are allowed the following weight of luggage, excess of which is placed at heavier rates: 2 cwts. free. 20 ” at 7s. 2d. per cwt. to Zungeru. 20 ” at 9s. 3d. ” ” to Zaria. 20 ” at 9s. 11d. ” ” to Kano. Additional 20 ” at 10s. 6d. ” ” to Zungeru. ” 20 ” at 13s. 6d. ” ” to Zaria. ” 20 ” at 14s. 6d. ” ” to Kano. Meals are charged: early morning tea, 6d.; breakfast, 2s.; lunch, 3s.; afternoon tea, 1s.; dinner, 4s. 6d. Doubtless very mundane details, but useful to the man who desires to know before setting forth from Europe how he is to fare financially in small matters. CHAPTER III ZUNGERU—THE CAPITAL OF THE PROTECTORATE A garden-city Capital—“Ikey” square—Autocracy thorough—Circumscribed accommodation and doubled-up quarters—Young administrators—Strict, stern, severe economy—The Governor’s “Palace”—Job-lot furniture—His Excellency’s 1s.-an-hour, Bank-Holiday motor-car—Pooh-Bah Cantonment magistrate. I expected to find Zungeru a town more or less roughly divided into official, business and residential quarters, with clearly-defined and named roads and thoroughfares. The Capital of Northern Nigeria—the administrative headquarters—is, however, a city in a garden; and a very small city at that, probably the smallest in existence, much smaller than Monrovia, the Capital of the Republic of Liberia.