Mary Kingsley Quote

Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like one of those flower-stands full of ferns and plants - the sort you come across in drawing rooms at home, with wire-work legs. I do not mean that Mondoleh has wire-work legs under water, but it looks as if it might have.

Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons (ed. Cambridge University Press, 2010) - ISBN: 9781108022002