Travels in West Africa

must make allowances for my love of this sort of country, with its great forests and rivers and its inhabitants who hold animistic beliefs The author refers here to "animistic-minded" inhabitants, reflecting her study of traditional African religions which see spirit and soul in all natural things., and for my ability to be more comfortable there than in England. Your more refined cultural sensibilities may work against your enjoying West Africa, but if you go there, you will find things just as I have described them.