Crossword-Solution: DUALA 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

This, if I am not badly mistaken, is our objective point." "Perhaps you are right," said Jack somewhat dubiously, "but won't the forts be too strong for the cruisers?" "Not these, I am sure." "Well," said Jack, "I hope we see some action soon, whether it is at Duala, as you call it, or some other place.

Rounding a bend in the stream, Duala could be seen in the distance; likewise the forts guarding the town, and a bombardment of the fortifications was at once begun.

Apparently secure in the belief that the forts at Duala could successfully ward off the attacks of any enemy, the German commander at Boak had grown careless, and the lads could not see a single sign of soldiers or sentries.

The Admiralty attached extreme importance to Duala, and considerable importance to Dar-es-Salaam and Tanga, as also to some of the ports in Oceania owing to the presence of Von Spee's squadron of swift cruisers in the Pacific.

Duala, Bernardo and Morales were passed, the road climbing all the time, the mountain ranges of Santa de Moa and Santa Verde rising sentinel-like on either side.