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The result as we see it to-day Is strikingly Illustrated In British territory by a journey from the Niger mouth to Sokoto. The river In Its windings makes a sectional cut of which the general direction is from north to south, and leaving the nude savage of the coast to prowl In dusky nakedness through the mangrove swamps of Southern Nigeria at its mouths, the traveller who enters the river sees the natives on the banks ever Increasing in decency and dignity as the latitude recedes from the equator. At Lokoja no native Is unclothed. A little farther north, at Bida, where the town is approached by avenues of trees, and native brass and glass manufactures add to the usual Industries, Moorish dress Is already common. In the markets of Sokoto and Kano the scene

is as varied and as dignified as In any market of the

Mediterranean coast. J v/