102 JOURNAL OF THE 
the left upper arm they carry arrows for their immediate use 
in a wooden quiver. 
Thursday, September 16.—Captain Trotter wished me to 
visit the left shore. The current on the right side, 
where we were at anchor, was 1 and 11 knots; but towards 
the middle it ran much stronger, and in some places the boat 
could hardly make way against it. We kept therefore, after 
reaching the left bank of the Niger, close to the jungle, (I 
must not say shore, for every thing was under water). 
Amongst different things, 1 noticed a rather thick tree, 
30 feet high, which attracted my attention by its large fruit; 
it is apparently an Artocarpus. The Kroomen call it Oqua, 
and told me that they eat the boiled seed. I saw only fruit 
and female blossoms ; no male flowers. "The tree contained 
much milky juice. Besides this I found here a seemingly new 
species of Anona, and the above-mentioned genus of Legu- 
minose, occurring often as a small branchy tree, with white 
flowers, remarkable for its bright red terminal leaves. In - 
those nooks, where the current was weak, the Pistia grew in 
large quantities, mixed with Ceratophyllum, without fructifi- 
cation, and the Salvinia, and Jungermannia (P?) of Ibu. At | 
last we reached a bit of dry land, deep in the bush, where 
some negroes had pitched their tent-like straw huts for 
temporary dwellings. They told me that they had come 
from the opposite side (from Dgaggu?) to plant this place, 
: aginst ths Has season; but cud had not yet begun. ps 
Oni my return] l uldündn no place butthe deck jo my Fe 
I then went on board the “ Albert,” t make my report to 
Captain Trotter; but was obliged. to stop there a long time, 
for want of a boat to return. - In the mean time, we had 
~ heavy shower of rain, and on my subsequent arrival i in the 
COME Wilberforce” I found not a few of my plants spoil d, 
quite lost, : amongst them the An 
.. for the rest, every nook that I 
- ae sinon, and ind cabin was cram 
