Zintgraff's Explorations in Bamenda, Adamawa and the Benue Lands 1889-1892 - Paperbackby E. M. Chilver (Author) 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: