'And now the settlement ... began to appear ... upon Le Greslie, or Eastern point, a low sandy formation, capped with stunted bush and bearing a few palms, stood a few outfactories ... As we passed Beecroft Point ... the town came up to full view ... no fort, no gothic hall, no big house, nothing but the plain bungalow ... Here, as at Zanzibar, flagging appeared to be the custom; every factory flies a bit of bunting, and some fly two ...' (Wanderings in West Africa, II, pp. 211-2)