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NIGERIA 213
entire region. As the greater portion has only just been taken over from
the Royal Niger Company, it is not yet possible to state absolutely where
the capital of Southern Nigeria will bo fixed; but probably at Asaba, the
administrative centre of the Company, or on the opposite bank of the Niger
at Onicha. At Asaba are the central gaol, the seat of the Supreme Court,
the residence of the Chief Justice, military barracks, and many other public
buildings. Idda, further up the Niger, and near the boundary of Northern
Nigeria, is an important town, and the capital of the Pagan Igara kingdom.
The principal ports on the seaboard are "Wari, Burntn, Akassa, Brass, New
Calabar, Bonny, Opobo, and Old Calabar, where customs houses are established
both for Southern and Northern Nigeria. At Akassa the British
government have taken over the engineering and repairing workshops of the
Royal Niger Company^ as also the slip-way for the repair of hulls. The
chief products exported are palm oil, palm kernels, ivory, india-rubber,
ebony, camwood, indigo, gums, barwood, and hides ; and the imports consist
of cloth, calico, hardware, spirits, tobacco, gunpowder, guns, rice, bread,
salt, pickled meats, matchets, soap, pottery, brass and copper rods, and fancy
articles. By the Colonial Loans Act, 1899, an advance of 43,500/. for harbour
works was authorised.
The military force of Southern Nigeria consists of about 1,080 native
infantry, with Maxim guns and details, commanded by British officers. The
new district of Benin, annexed in 1897, is one of the most important regions
lor development, and is showing great progress. This must be distinguished
from the mouth of the River Benin, often described as Benin, but far removed
from the city of Benin. Missionary enterprise is very active in
Southern Nigeria. Three British Protestant Societies and two French
Roman Catholic Societies are established there, each with several stations.
As the southern limit of the Royal Niger Company's zone of prohibition of
spirituous liquors was on hit. 6° 12' N., and as the boundary between
Southern and Northern Nigeria is about 7° N., it is proposed to establish,
between these two parallels, a neutral zone into which spirituous liquors might
be imported and sold, but might not be stored in large quantities, lest these
should be smuggled across the boundary into Northern Nigeria.
High Commissioner.—Sir R. D. R.Moor, K.C.M.G.
Divisional Commissioners.—Major H. L. Gallwey, C.M.G., D. S.O. ;
Major A. G. Leonard ; R. F. Locke ; and Captain E. P. S. Ronpell.
BOOKS OF REFERENCE ON NIGERIA.
Annual Reports of the Royal Niger Company.
Papers Relating to the Massacre of British Officials near Benin. London, 1S07
Papers relating to the Royal Niger Company. London, 1S99.
boundary Convention "with France, 1S9S. London, 1S99.
Travels of Clapperton, R. Lander. Richardson, Barth, Rohlfs.
Bacon (R. H.), The City of Blood.' [Benin]. London, 1807.
Bmdlossi.il.), In the Niger Country. London, 1899.
Boisragon (Captain), The Massacre in Benin. London, 1807.
Ooldie (Hugh), Old Calabar and its Mission, 1890.
Har/ord-Battersby (C. F.), Niger and Toruha Routes. 2 vols. London, 1S95-9G.
Hutchinson, Narrative of the*Niger, Tshadda, and Binue Exploration.
Hodges (F. E.), Consular Jurisdiction in the Niger Coast. London, 1895.
Hourst (Lieut.), Sur le Niger et au Pays des Touaregs. Paris, 1898.—The Exploration
of tlie Niger, 1895-90. [Eng. Trans.] London, 1898.
■Johnston (Sir Harry), The Colonisation of Africa. Cambridge, 1899.
Keltie (J. Scott), The Partition of Africa. 2nd ed. London, 1SA5,
Lucas (C. P.), Historical Geography of the British Colonies. Vol. III. Oxford, 1S94.
MacDonald (Sir C. M.), Paper in Proceedings R. G. S., 1891.
Mockkr-Ferryman (A. F.), Up the Niger. London, 1892. Imperial Africa. Vol, I
London, 1898.
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