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of a helmet, or perhaps an oblong square, or it was cut in 
chequers, and the remaining portion twisted into numbers of 
little tails, while others wore their hair like our European 
dandies, arranged in various ways on the sides of the head. 
The river;* at the separation of the Benin (Warree) branch, 
is about a mile wide; the commencement of this branch 
measured 696 yards. At 5 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 with us. 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 “ Ulok.^ 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 fig- 
tree, with very small fruit. The neighbouring chief, an old 
leprous man, came on board; he wore a drummer's ios 
* The branch which here separates from the Nun or main branch of 
the Delta of the Niger, runs to the sea by the town of Warree or Wart 
falling intothe Bight of Benin to the north-west of the. mouth of the v 
Nun river. Captain Becroft of the Ethiope, Mr. Jamieson's steamer, __ 
was the first. to ascend the Niger by this branch, in 1840. Lieutenant a 
had previously ctur d it to be the Benin river, with which, 
however, there is only a ym by creeks. CHAM 
Dr. Vogel calling it the Benin branch in his Journal. Epo e E 
.. Above the separation, of these two branches, Diesel de ropery - 
called the Niger, the name by which it has been so long known in tbe 
civilized world. The natives have no name for the river, excepting _ 
the general appellation of “Water,” which varies with the different —— 
languages spoken om the banks. Mungo Park found it called “ Joliba” — 
in the, higher parts of the river. Inthe: — n pres. 
“ Quorra.”—(H, D. Trotter). 
