Excerpt from The Niger and the Benueh: Travels in Central AfricaOn Sunday, April 7, we cast anchor at Corunna, in a bay surrounded with picturesque mountains. We stayed there a few hours, and by the evening of the next day we sighted Lisbon. But the sea was rough, and the entrance of the Tagus is dan gerons at night, so we had to tack until daylight.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.