Word: nigeria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Helser has been doing pioneer missionary work at a new station in the interior of Africa, a thousand miles from the coast. His experience as a traveler, explorer, and missionary in the Dark Continent has been extensive. He is the author of a book on travel entitled "In Sunny Nigeria" that stamps him as an expert on African customs...
Yellow fever, scourge of Panama, no longer is endemic in the Americas, though last April there was an outbreak in northern Brazil. The Board sent Dr. Henry Beeuwkes, its yellow fever director, to Nigeria, West Africa, to experiment along the Gold Coast...
...Guest. Wales, on his princely progress in Nigeria (TIME, Apr. 20), left Lagos on the seaboard and sped into the heart of the country...
...Repulse steamed from Gambia, stopped off Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast Colony and steamed on to Nigeria (TIME...
After the visit was over, the Repulse steamed for Nigeria and the Prince landed at Lagos, but did not stay in that port owing to a recent outbreak of plague. It was previously thought that the whole Nigerian trip would have to be canceled on this account, but the Prince insisted on visiting the country. At first, objections were put forward that the Prince's presence would endanger the health of many thousands of natives; but later, a strict quarantine was ordered and the Prince was enjoined to pass rapidly through Lagos for the hinterland where...