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not help condemning the soil as extremely indifferent. The 
inhabitants of Adda-Kuddu, upon their town being destroyed 
by the Felahtis, removed to the opposite side of the river, 
and built there the town called “ Scbimri," (afterwards I 
heard other names for the new Adda-Kuddu) close to the 
shore. It is now, by reason of this year’s unusually high 
water, quite inundated ; and therefore the people have erected 
another new city. The chief or governor (or Aneidjo) ap- 
pointed by the King of Iddah, paid us a visit. His compa 
nions wore the Nufi Toba, an under-dress with wide sleeves, 
reaching to the knuckles. He was decorated with large bells 
on the wrists ; and a slave fanned him with a leathern fam 
In the afternoon we proceeded up the Niger, to Stirling Hill, 
to examine the country: it was difficult to learn at whose 
disposal it was; but at Jast we were assured, that an inde- 
pendent tribe, said to be very savage, dwelt on the mountain. 
I was requested, towards sunset, to examine the soil in the 
valley, and found it no better, than at Adda-Kuddu. There 
were plantations of Maize and Yams. Mr. Carr had, in the 
meantime, been on the hill, and detected a rich vege- . 
table soil. We returned immediately to Adda-Kuddu, which — 
we reached at dark. The current here is two knots. The . 
natives had brought cocoa-nuts on board, and on my inquiry 
they said, the tree grew on the other shore; but afterwards 
they asserted, that it was not found here at all. Mr. Brown 
had brought me from thence a Unona (!) and an apparently 
entirely new genus of the family of Leguminose, with a, fruit 
similar to Swartzia, and I subsequently found this little tree 
every where on the shore about Stirling. : 
Sunday, September 12.—We remained quietly at anchor. 
Monday, September 13.—1 went on shore to botanizé 
amongst the ruins of Adda-Kuddu; but the hot sun quickly 
forced me back. Papaws are here still frequent ; also some 
sorts of Cucurbitacee, which, with Asclepiadee and Creepers — 
have overgrown the ruined huts. A Lemna growing in. | 
` puddle was the same as I had seen at Iddah. I observed | 
here but a single Pistia float by; whilst the day before, We — 
