Described and documented as the most constantly navigable river of the earth, West Afrika’s River Niger is said provides bigger and better harvests than the Nile. Published in Paris in 1897 by French Traveller, Journalist and Explorer Major Felix Dubois and titled “Timbuctoo, the Mysterious”, he travelled in 1895 from Paris to Dakar Senegal and from there down the River Niger (in what was called the French Sudan). He visited the town of Jenne which was called “Jewel of the Valley of the Niger” and from there proceeded to the ancient city of Timbuktu.

According to Felix he published:
“what the Nile has done for Egypt, the Niger has accomplished for West Africa. The cultivation is as facile as that of Egypt and is due to the same regular rise and fall of the river. But the Niger shows an even greater munificence in it’s gifts than that of it’s brother in Eastern Africa”.