built modern houses on the mainland. The palace of the governor crowns a gently sloping terrace, where stood a native village destroyed by the German flotilla in 1885. But the officials usually reside at the health resort established on the exposed sandy beach at the extremity of Cape Swellaba, to which the Germans have given the somewhat eccentric name of Kaiser Wilhelni's Bad.
The term Biafra figuring on most maps as the name of a town in the Cameroons basin has absolutely no existence. It appears to have been applied to some imaginary kingdom or capital, and afterwards extended to the neighbouring
bight. But it should be removed from modern geographical nomenclature, having apparently originated through a clerical error for Mafra, the name of a mountain inscribed in the early maps on the exact site of the Ba-Farami range, so that the resemblance between these two terms may not be altogether fortuitous. Near the mouth of the Moanya have been established three factories trading with the neighbouring "Little," or Northern Ba-Tangas. Higher up the centre of traffic is at the large village of Javanja, where the less civilised Ba-Kokos of the interior come in contact with the Ba-Tangas. Under the common designation of "Great Ba-Tangas" are comprised two distinct tribes, the Ba-Pukos north of
