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multiplied as they can be procured by the relations of the 
deceased, or according to the rank of the person; in the 
case of a rich and very great man, the bulk acquired being 
only limited by the power of conveyance to the grave; so 
that the first hut in which the body is deposited, becoming 
too small, a second, a third, even to a sixth, encreasing in 
dimensions, is placed over it. 
August 3d. This morning at daylight, I rowed the sloop 
round Booka Embomma island to the south entrance of the 
creek, where I anchored to wait for the Congo coming up 
with the sea breeze. 
The reach of the river formed by the main land and the 
island Booka Embomma on thenorth, and the islands Hekay 
(Molyneux) and Booka (Leyland’s) on the south, is a bason 
surrounded by elevated hills composed of primitive granite, 
or schistus ; in general the first formation is naked of trees, 
and the second covered with brush wood, and large trees in 
the crevices of the rock. The hills are all extremely rugged, 
forming deep hollows, separated by natural causeways, and 
much resembling, but on a greatly larger scale, the road 
which passes the Devil’s Punch Bowl between Portsmouth 
and London; the flattened summit on which the banza 
stands is, as we observed in the groves, an under stratum of 
compact clay covered with black mould, on which the ridges 
