Africa and its inhabitants . ish representatives, supported by over two hundredtreaties, is no longer challenged, and the support of the home government isgradually transforming their prerogatives into a political dominion. Not onlycan the company trade along the river to the exclusion of all others, but it has THE BENUE BASIN. 32C also the right of buying or otlierwise acquiring mines, quarries, forests, fisheries,and manufactures, of cultivating tlie land and erecting structures on it. Thecompany is moreover the political ruler of all the territories ceded to it by thekings, the chiefs, and
Africa and its inhabitants . ish representatives, supported by over two hundredtreaties, is no longer challenged, and the support of the home government isgradually transforming their prerogatives into a political dominion. Not onlycan the company trade along the river to the exclusion of all others, but it has THE BENUE BASIN. 32C also the right of buying or otlierwise acquiring mines, quarries, forests, fisheries,and manufactures, of cultivating tlie land and erecting structures on it. Thecompany is moreover the political ruler of all the territories ceded to it by thekings, the chiefs, and peoples in the Niger basin, and in return undertakes totreat with justice the nations in its territories, to respect their religions, theirlaws, and properties. Nevertheless the company is bound to treat witli thenatives for the gradual abolition of slavery, on this condition obtaining a royalcharter which places it under the control of the Secretary of State. Thus has Firf. 155.—Thk XTppbb Beitoe. 1 - fi*^.>OVt. Q^amba ^lAnnf^O l2°io- 15 Ljrt of br«cnVic*> ItiMjaca. been constituted a second East India Company, which was founded under thename of The National African Company, in 1882, and received iU first charteras The Eoyal Niger Company, on July 10, 1880. Physical Features. Towards its source the Benue basin is separated from that of the Tsad by ascarcely perceptible water-parting; but towards the north tlie divide between itsaffluents and the Kaduna river is fonncd by plateaux dominated by some of thehhitst mountains in North Africa. These highlands arc separated by iutcr\-cning 326 WEST AFRICA. valleys into distinct groups, disposed for the niost part in the direction from north-
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