Chapter 35

I add the indisputable fact that though he had only been six months on the coast he was cordially hated. Mr. Commissioner Sanders of the Isisi, Mr. Commissioner de la Court of the Kroo River, numerous deputy commissioners, inspectors and officers of state, living meanly along a hot slip of coast, daily thought of him and cherished next to their hearts the news—it was cut from an impudent Lagos journal—that His Excellency found the climate very trying. Sir Harry came into his office one day—it was the morning after …