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is about a mile wide: the commencement of this branch. 3 
measured 696 yards. At five o’clock we quitted the Benin | 
(Warree) branch, returning into the main stream, which has — 
here a lake-like appearance, surrounded with high trees: - 
many of the canoes followed, spreading over the water, 
and greatly enlivening the scene by zealously rowing to keep - 
up withus. Towards sunset we cast anchor. The weather - 
was very cheerless, being generally rainy, except at noon.  — 
Wednesday, August 25.—Proceeded at the usual time. 
Much rain and therefore several stoppages. At noon we 
reached a place, marked on Allen’s map, Egaboh, but now 
called “ Ulok2’ The sun showing itself, and an attempt to - 
make observations following, I was enabled to land fora - 
short time. The grass along the shore was not a Sorghum, 
but some other genus. Close to the water-side grew a fg- - 
tree, with very small fruit. The neighbouring chief, an old — 
leprous man, came on board: he wore a drummer’s jacket 
given him at the time of Laird's expedition (he seemed to 
have taken great care of it) and carried an iron staff divided af. 
the top and ornamented with brass rings. After some deten- 
tion, occasioned by heavy rains, we pursued our course, the 
stream being generally about half a mile wide, and the vege 
tation the same as heretofore. Approaching the creek that 
leads to Ibu (Aboh)* the current proved so strong, that We | 
called the Niger, the name by which it has been so long known in the 
civilized world. The natives have no name for the river, excepting 
the general appellation of “ Water," which varies with the different 
languages spoken on the banks. Mungo Park found it called “ J oliba" 
in the higher parts of the river. In the Houssa country it is called 
** Quorra."—(H. D. Trotter). 
* Schön says the proper name of this town is not Ibu, but ** Aboh." 
The town had hitherto been called by Europeans “ Ibo” or ** Eboe," 
and was generally supposed to be the capital of the whole of the Ibo 
country; but we ascertained that its proper name is ** Aboh,” aud that 
it is the principal town of the territory of the same name, which forms à 
part only, and that probably the most western, of the Ibo country. 
(H. D. Trotter) -—See Captain Trotter’s Report to Lord Stanley; Parlia- 
mentary Papers relating to the Niger Expedition, p. 91. - BE 
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