Show nigeria noted of gargan produces yams bams foot long trees fe feet et high washington more imposing than the famous umbrella of Tweed ledurn and are the two gold let ceremonial umbrellas made in england recently for II 11 obi oba of benin nigeria each Is 12 feet across and stands 14 feet high large as these umbrellas are they will not seem out of proportion in nigeria a country of gargantuan extremes where many things grow oversized says a bulletin from the washington headquarters of tile geographic society gigantic describes nigeria its extensive areas in the north its broad savannas and its ml mighty gaty forests its equatorial rainfall reaches a total in some regions of more than a hundred inches causin causing luxuriant foliage trees over feet high and yams bams over a foot long through the country sprawls the broad lengthy niger one of four greatest rivers and one of the dozen great rivers of the world with an area ot of about square miles nigeria Is nearly seven dinies times larger than england and contains more mor e people than any other british dependency except india it swarms almost people of these only are europeans sev cral hundreds are syrian traders the rest are africans no other cou country of equal size in africa has such a variety of native tribes each tribe has its own peculiar customs african women near lokoto weir wear rings that stretch cli their ear lobes to their co collar ilar bones while women in n dornia stain their front teeth black and their canine teeth red members of numerous tribes wear artificial tails nigeria is as definitely striated as a marble cake along its southern coast a humid languorous region of swamps mud flats and lagoons stretches inland for only ten miles near lagos but over GO CO miles in the niger delta the miles of coast comprising the delta is cut by numerous creel creeks s in whose brackish tidal waters mangroves man groves stand these trees are of economic value to nigeria as sources of timber and tannin one variety is burnt to obtain the salt in its ash tile the creeks are known as the oil rivers because natives chiefly ibos civill living on their banks exist larg largely gely by bradil trading in palm oil seeking palms they travel in canoes up the creeks sometimes for 40 or 5 ro CO miles nigeria s Is an outstanding producer of palm oil and d in 1 1930 exported tons of it the lush steaming coast of nigeria and its immediate neighbors has been dubbed the white mans graveyard bebau because se of its diseases that stalk the white trader until 1903 one out of do as place 1 B every 50 white men was felled by diseases caused by tropical climate and swamp bred insects smallpox yellow fever and sleeping sickness were rampant modern capital lagos the capital of nigeria is the port through which most of its exports pass originally built on a swampy lagoon island but a foot or two above sea level it was extremely unhealthful for europeans however reclamation of swamp land and modern drainage and water systems have done much to make it more habitable it has a railroad fine public buildings lighted by electricity schools hospitals and a cathedral north orth of the region of swamps and lagoons dense tropical rain forests spread inland for almost a hundred miles in these grow mahogany ebony oil pa palms lills rubber trees and ironwood trees visitors traveling northward find that is as the altitude increases the climate becomes drier and more bracing rain forests give way to monsoon for ests tree clad mountain peaks and then to savannas of grass dotted with shea butter trees natives use shea butter oil as food or ship it to europe for use in soap making kano one or of the groat great african trading centers Is over miles by rail northeast of lagos its aggregation of mud huts is enclosed by a mud wall about 14 miles in circumference 30 0 to 50 feet high and pierced by 13 cowhide gates between october and march camels lurch through these gates into kano loaded with bags of groundnuts 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