Zintgraff�s Explorations in Bamenda, Adamawa and the Benue Lands 1889�1892

The following pages, initially prepared for limited circulation in 1961, contain brief extracts and summaries of those parts of Eugen Zintgraff�s book NORD-KAMERUN (1895), of most interest concerning the colonial Bamenda and Wum Division. Zintgraff�s book, the first by a European about the Grassfields, has not been translated and is hard to get second-hand. In using these notes the following points should be borne in mind: Zintgraff�s knowledge of Bali (Mungaka) and Hausa was very slight, and hi