kory,
on the north side of the stream and the starting point of the railway to
the interior, is also part of Duala, which has a total population of
22,000, including about 170 Europeans. Duala is the headquarters of the
merchants and missionaries. The principal streets are wide and tree
lined, the sanitation is good. The government offices are placed in a
fine park in which are statues of Gustav Nachtigal and others. The port
is provided with a floating dock. The seat of government is Buea, a post
3000 ft. above the sea on the slopes of the Cameroon mountain. Victoria
is a flourishing town in Ambas Bay, founded by the British Baptist
missionaries expelled from Fernando Po in 1858 (see below). Batanga and
Campo are trading stations in the southern portion of the colony. On the
route from Duala to Lake Chad is the large commercial town of Ngaundere,
inhabited chiefly by Hausas and occupied by the Germans in 1901. Another
large town is Garua on the Benue river. Farther north and within 30 m.
of Lake Chad is Dikwa (Dikoa), in Bornu, the town chosen by Rabah (q.v.)
as his capital after his conquest of Bornu. Gulfei on the lower Shari
and Kusseri on the Logone are also towns of some note. Ngoko is a
trading station on the Dscha, in the south-east of the protectorate,
near the confluence of that river with the Sanga.

_Products and Industry._--Cameroon is rich in natural products, one of
the most important being the oil-palm. Cocoa cultivation was introduced
by the Germans and proved remarkably successful. Rubber is collected
from the Landolphia and various species of Ficus. Palm-oil, palm
kernels, cocoa, copal, copra, Calabar beans, kola-nuts and ivory are the
principal exports. There are several kinds of finely-grained wood,
amongst which a very dark ebony is specially remarkable. Cotton, indigo
and various fibres of plants deserve notice. The natives grow several
kinds of bananas, yams and batatas, maize, pea-nuts, sugar-cane, sorghum
and pepper. Minerals have not been found in paying quantities. Iron is
smelted by the natives, who, especially amongst the Hausas, are very
clever smiths, and manufacture fine lances and arrow heads, knives and
swords, and also hoes. Dikwa is the centre of an important trade of
which the chief articles are coffee, sugar, velvet, silk and weapons, as
well as gold and silver objects brought by caravans from Tripoli. The
natives round the Cameroon estuary are clever carvers of wood, and make
high