Bights

We had come to that part of the coast called the Bights, consisting of the Gulfs of Biafra and Benin, between which lies the huge Niger Delta.

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MANGROVE CAYCLUB ANDROS ISLAND: Located near theeastern end of Andros 'Middle Bight, the newly renovated Mangrove Cay Cluboffers guided fishing access to the South and Middle Bights as well as Andros'legendary west side.

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Messrs. Miller Brothers in the Bights, take every care that lies in their power of the people who serve them, down to the Kruboys working on their beaches, giving ample and good rations and providing good houses.

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The bitterness of death remained behind as we passed out of the baneful Bights.

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“Woh woh” you will find, among all the natives in the Bights, to mean extremely bad.

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But this was unavoidable, for we had it as a loan from Spain in 1827 as a naval station for our ships, at that time energetically commencing to suppress the slave trade in the Bights; the idea being that this island would afford a more healthy and convenient spot for a naval depot than any port on the coast itself.

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The country looks high and bold after the desperate flatness of the Bights, and we note with pleasure that we have left behind us the “impervious luxuriance of vegetation which crowns the lowlands, covers the sides of the rises, and caps their summits.”

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These English and German lines, having come to a friendly understanding regarding freights, work the Bights of Benin, Biafra, and Panavia, without any rivals, save now and again the vessels chartered by the African Association to bring out a big cargo, and the four sailing vessels belonging to the Association which give an eighteenth-century look to the Rivers, and have great adventures on the bars of Opobo and Bonny.

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They appeared small and effeminate after the burly negroes of the Bights, and their black but not comely persons were clad in red and white raiment.

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My chief excuse for so doing lies in the fact that independent travellers are rare in the Bights.

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