CHAPTER 4. The German Invasion 1884–1885

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF MAPS AND FIGURES ix
4. PREFACE: How I came to edit the memoir xi
5. PART I. Introduction
6. Map 2
7. CHAPTER 1. Biographical Notes on Knutson and Waldau 3
8. CHAPTER 2. The Manuscript 9
9. PART II. Knutson’s Memoir. The Cameroon Mountains and the Biafran Swamps
10. Map 22
11. CHAPTER 1. From Sweden to Cameroon 23
12. CHAPTER 2. Fauna and Flora 31
13. CHAPTER 3. Misery and India-rubber 39
14. CHAPTER 4. The German Invasion 1884–1885 47
15. CHAPTER 5. Travel in the Interior 1885 55
16. CHAPTER 6. The Ancient Races 69
17. CHAPTER 7. Adventures on Cameroon Mountains and in Biaffran Swamps 79
18. CHAPTER 8. Religion and Customs of the Bakweri and Bomboko 101
19. CHAPTER 9. The Slave Trade 125
20. CHAPTER 10. Black and White 135
21. CHAPTER 11. The Missionaries, the Explorers and the Men I met at the Cameroons 145
22. CHAPTER 12. The Future of the Cameroons 159
23. PART III. Land and Plantations
24. CHAPTER 1. Knutson and Waldau’s Contracts with the Notables on the Cameroon Mountain 167
25. CHAPTER 2. Knutson’s Legal Battles 175
26. CHAPTER 3. Waldau’s Last Years in Cameroon 189
27. PART IV. Alternative Perspectives
28. CHAPTER 1. About the Ba-kwileh [Bakweri] People 195
29. CHAPTER 2. Epitome of Waldau’s Journey to the Country North of the Cameroon Mountain 211
30. CHAPTER 3. Sir Richard Burton’s Visit to Mapanja, 1861–1862 (Extracts) 223
31. CHAPTER 4. George Thomson’s Stay in Mapanja 1871–1879 237
32. CHAPTER 5. Stefan Sczolc-Rogozinski 241
33. CHAPTER 6. Hugo Zöller, Journalist 245
34. BIBLIOGRAPHY 279
35. INDEX 283