Niger

Niger is a great river of Western Africa, whose head-waters rise amid the Kong Mountains behind Sierra Leone. It flows North-East as far as Timbuctoo (2 miles from the river), and there it bends gradually southward, receives from the East its great affluent the Benuë, and about 100 miles from the coast begins to form a wide forest and jungle-covered delta (larger than that of the Nile), and finally flows into the Gulf of Guinea by 22 mouths after a course of some 2600 miles. It forms, with the Benuë, an invaluable highway into the heart of the country.

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