Mr. Gillett, who had covered twenty-six
(sixteen?) miles of it, describes the path as unbroken by swamps or
streams. Further north, according to the many native guides whom I
questioned, travellers pass two rivulets, and finally they are ferried
over the Abonsa, or Takwa River. The second road follows closely the left
bank of the Ancobra: it is used by the Hausa soldiers, but only in the
heart of the Dries, and it must be impassable during the Rains. Dr. J.
Africanus B. Horton, who contributes to a characteristic paper, [Footnote:
The _African Times_, January 2, 1882. The paper is full of inaccuracies;
it begins by placing Tomento (Tumento) ninety-five miles (for thirty)
along the river-course from the mouth, and he makes steam-launches 'take
from two to four days (say one) to go up to it.'] has never heard of the
former when he says 'from Axim to Taquah (Takwa) there is no direct
route,' and he justly deprecates the latter. But he cries up the Bushua or
Dixcove-Takwa line, upon which he has large concessions. I shall return to
this subject in a future chapter.
On the north side of Mount Irvine is a second nullah, the Eswa, which
flows, like the Besaon, through the dense growth of bush covering the
eastern uplands.
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