Bénoué (river)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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[Lokoja], 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/110
Scope and Contents
205 x 151 mm. A view showing the town, with the confluence of the Niger and the Benue in the background.
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Lokoja. Confluence of Niger and Benue [i.e. Bénoué], 1908 - 1912
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/107
Scope and Contents
205 x 147 mm. A view looking down over the town from a hillside, with the African town in the foreground, European bungalows and other buildings beyond, and the confluence of the Niger and the Benue in the background. Lokoja was the site of the first British Consulate (1859) in Nigeria.
Dates:
1908 - 1912
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The dredger 'Quorra', 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011D/109
Scope and Contents
202 x 140 mm. Showing the dredger Quorra at work, with a pipeline supported on pontoons running from the boat to the riverbank. Bell travelled on the Quorra during his trip up the Benue in 1910: 'At Barijuko I found awaiting me the Quorra, which is to take us up the Benue. She is really a dredger, and was brought out last year to deepen the Niger at certain places. She cost the trifle of £40,000 and has, so far, done little or nothing in the way of dredging. I do not exactly know what...
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).