VOYAGE TO THE NIGER. 45 
Thursday, August 5.—We left Accra after midnight, 
and cast anchor on Sunday, the 9th, at the mouth of a 
river, supposed to be the Nun. "The weather was gloomy, 
and a dense rain falling all day, caused the wet to make its 
way through the shutters, so that it was difficult to find a dry 
place, even for standing room. We stayed there the whole 
day, and sailed next morning for the mouth of the Nun, 
anchoring about nine miles off it, alongside the Albert. 
Friday, August 18.—'The want of water, already. felt 
the day before, was now more severely experienced ; 
although we had collected some rain on Monday. How such 
an Expedition came to be unprovided with water, especially 
when we consider that, on no account, ought we to have made 
use at first of the Niger water, is incomprehensible to me! 
It had been easy to obtain abundance of good water at 
Danish Accra. 
Sunday, August 15.—We quitted our anchorage at half 
past eleven, A.M., and crossed without difficulty the bar; 
beyond which we cast anchor beside the Albert, at about 
a quarter to two, p.m. Here we stopped four days; during © 
which I could only examine the right bank of the river, 
because I had no boat to get to the opposite side ; where the 
greater extent of land and a village seemed to offer more - 
interest. The river is here perhaps 10,000 yards wide; and 
the stream carries down a great deal of sand. The tide 
showed itself very distinctly, running perhaps three or four 
knots an hour, and the current seeming to set more on 
the left shore, which appears to be a mere sandbank, or 
sandy foreland, than on the right, which is covered with 
jungle, immediately beyond the sandy strand. The mouth 
of the Nun looks like a Delta, on a small scale; at least now, 
during the rainy season, being intersected by many shallow 
watercourses, forming, further on, low lands covered with 
Mangroves, similar to what I observed at Bassa Cove (Grand 
Bassa). The Avicennia appeared to prove, that the one 
hitherto seen, with quite naked leaves (A.-nitida ?) at Grand 
Bassa, is but a variety of that at Sierra Leone. In these 
