'Much have I travelled in the realms of gold'

SHAKESPEARE

CONTENTS

[PREFACE.]
[TO THE GOLD COAST FOR GOLD.]
[CHAPTER I. — PRELIMINARY: TRIESTE TO LISBON.]
[CHAPTER II. — FROM LISBON TO MADEIRA.]
[CHAPTER III. — A FORTNIGHT AT MADEIRA.]
[CHAPTER IV. — MADEIRA (continued)—CHRISTMAS—SMALL INDUSTRIES—]
[CHAPTER V. — TO TENERIFE, LA LAGUNA, AND OROTAVA.]
[CHAPTER VI. — THE ROUTINE ASCENT OF MOUNT ATLAS, THE 'PIKE' OF TENERIFE.]
[CHAPTER VII. — THE SPANISH ACCOUNT OF THE REPULSE OF NELSON FROM SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE.]
[CHAPTER VIII. — TO GRAND CANARY—LAS PALMAS, THE CAPITAL.]
[CHAPTER IX. — THE COCHINEAL—THE 'GALLO'—CANARY 'SACK'—ADIEU TO THE CANARIES.]
[CHAPTER X. — THE RUINED RIVER-PORT AND THE TATTERED FLAG.]
[CHAPTER XI. — SIERRA LEONE: THE CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.]

PREFACE.

The following extract from 'Wanderings in West Africa,' a book which I wrote in 1862 and published (anonymously) in 1863, will best explain the reasons which lately sent me to Western Africa:—