The Congo and the Cameroons

This is a great little excerpt book. Kingsley is a fascinating woman, well ahead of her time, and she writes very entertainingly. It is hard to believe the original book was published in 1897.
The book covers her travels through modern Gabon and her ascent of Mt Cameroon.

There is some wonderful writing with this book.
The rocks are covered with moss and ferns, and the mist curling and wandering about among the stems is very lovely. I have to pause in life's pleasures because I want to measure one of the large earthworms, which, with smaller sealing-wax-red worms, are crawling about. He was eleven inches and three quarters. He detained me some time getting this information, because he was so nervous during this operation. P50.

My men shouted to me above the roar that it was a ‘bad place'. They never give me half the credit I deserve for seeing danger, and they said “Water all go for hole down there, we fit to go too suppose we fall.' ‘Don't fall,' I yelled which was the only good advice I could think of to give them just then. P112.