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inhabitants seemed to have no knowledge of its being an 
esculent fruit, but after I had given the example, they 
partook of it readily. A tree of Pandanus caught my 
attention. 
The prospect from the summit was grand, comprehend- 
ing the windings of the river, its islands, the points of its 
shores up to T'addi Moenga and Bamba, the eastern Boka 
de Embomma, the western Boka de Embomma which 1s 
overgrown with wood, Keeti, which is the third island above 
Loomba, with a rounded mountain in its middle. Boka 
Embomma consists of a half decompassed gneiss, which 
occurs in large projecting blocks. 
The Captain had pitched his tent today. Frank Clark 
came to inform him that his Majesty had sent one of his. 
daughters to Clark’s wife, and that he might send for her. 
I took a walk to the town, chiefly with an intention of 
seeing Galwey and Tudor in their habitations. On enter- 
ing the enclosure of the King’s residence we found him 
sitting amidst a number of children, and distributing food 
among them. ‘They were all boys. Having stayed there 
a while, during which I was considered as the Embassador 
of the Captain, a young girl, naked, as all the others were, 
presented herself kneeling at the entrance. I took her 
hand, when unexpectedly N’Kenge, the Prince of Em- 
bomma, offered her in a very polite manner as a present to 
the Captain. She was very much alarmed ; and on being 
brought into the Captain’s tent, which was lighted by 
lamps, she ran under the bedstead. ‘The Captain seemed 
not much pleased with this obtruded civility. 
