E. force” shall also proceed. to sea with the sick, which have 
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the last four weeks, for want of suitable boxes in which to 
preserve my collections, I was unable to do almost any- 
thing in Botany. 
Friday, September 17.—1 bought to-day a complete set of 
arms of Adghó for 2000 cowries. Captain Allen purchased an 
ox for 30,000 cowries, from the son of a former chief of Adda- 
Kuddu, whom he called Mallen Katab, and who had poisoned 
old Pascoe and the Kroomen. "This son, Machmakal, was 
one of the handsomest negroes I ever saw; but he wanted to 
give his father's name differently. He made me a present of 
a pair of shoes of antelope hide, very well made. He under- 
stood a little Arabic, though he could not pronounce it 
according to Müller's notions, but he wrote it ; and singularly 
enough, he put the paper not in the usual manner before him, 
nor writing the letters from the top downwards, but so, that 
they must be read in the usual manner. 1 have his name and 
mine written by him. I had understood his name as Makola. 
According to Müller, what he wrote, is in the Algerine 
dialect, meaning : Machmakal.—(Vogel’s Private Journal). 
Saturday, September 18.—' The number of sick increases 
considerably, and the “ Soudan" is to take them to-morrow | 
down to the sea. I therefore wrote letters to-day: I continue 
unwell ; kead-ache and desee | 
Witten later, at t Fernando Po 
Bender September 19. Den, but slight fever. The 
“ Soudan” leaves for the sea. 
- Monday, September 20.—It is settled that the “ Wilber- d 
xr much increased. in number, and my first resolve w 
| remain here ; but our circumstances on shore were such, th: 
as an invalid, I could hardly hope to be comforta 
: therefore take one Allen’ s advice, w 9 
