Note 127 — Chapter XII · PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE.

Mr Keith Johnston, jun., who appended some very sensible and well-considered remarks to the ‘Routes,’ observes (p. 337) that ‘the Njemsi volcano in this region has a special interest, since, if the report be true, it is the only one which is known to present any signs of activity in the African Continent.’ I cannot at present place my hand upon a private note addressed to me by Mr Frank Wilson of Fernando Po, and describing how the Camarones Peak was seen to be in eruption shortly after my departure from the West African coast (1864). I had found it in one place still smoking.