THE LAST JOURNAL OF W. A. FORBES. 459 



Sept. 4th. Arthur disappeared. Went up the Lukoja hill with Green- 

 shields and five men. We started at 8.30 and took 55 minutes, including 

 stops, to top a tough climb over a rocky and pebbly path in bush. The 

 top is a fine park-like plateau, with more or less long grass and wooded, 

 not thickly, with scattered trees (sometimes big), acacias, &c. Saw 

 some of the red-flowered tree. Numerous "spoor" of buffalo, antelope, 

 and pig, but none seen. The hill consists of metamorphic oolitic sand- 

 stone and a breccia- like conglomerate, or agglomerate, of red colour, 

 with included rather angular fragments. Shot a Drymceca on top, and 

 saw some Guinea-fowl (? Numida rendalli), but few other birds. Green- 

 shields caught some butterflies, dragonflies, and two moths. Left about 

 2, and took 30 minutes, without a stop, to return to old factory. Found 

 that Arthur's body had been recovered, having been found in the river a 

 little way above white mission house, the trousers and shirt on bank 

 close by. Got a small snake and a Calotes from Ankrah. 



Sept. 5th. Shot four Sunbirds in morning from lime-tree in com- 

 pound, including examples of two species new to me. Afternoon 

 skinning and looking after spirit-specimens. At 4 buried Arthur in bush 

 just below model farm, and close to graves of Consuls Fell and Maxwell, 

 who died here in 1867, the former the last white who had died here. 

 Mr. Jones, a Sierra-Leone black, of Church Missionary Society, per- 

 formed the service, Ashbury, Greenshields, and self, and about twenty 

 blacks assisting. The soil is a reddish clay, apparently of half-decom- 

 posed basalts and igneous rocks ; no solid rock seen in grave. Abiga 

 shot several " deer " to-day and day before, close to town. Got five of 

 the green-headed lizard from a boy at old factory. Saw a couple of 

 Ayapornis feeding on long grass on the banks of the creeks intersecting 

 the town. 



Sept. 6th. Went out with Abiga in morning down river after " deer ; " Ibis, 1883, 

 but though we found lots of spoor, both of them and of buffalo, only P' ^ ' 

 saw one and did not get a shot. Saw some green- and yellow-backed 

 Pceocephali. Abiga gave me the horns of a " deer " he had shot the day 

 before close to town, described as rather small and red and white, 

 apparently Tragelaphus scriptus. Got six of the common smaller green- 

 striped-headed lizard from a boy ; and a woman brought a large, but 

 mutilated, Clarices-like Siluroid, with free maxilla? About 4.30 the 

 * Formoso ' arrived, bringing Mr. Sargent and a newspaper of July 29th. 

 Ashbury very low, determined to leave per ' Formoso ' for Egga ; Green- 

 shields and self stopping here. Man brought a young Eail of uniform 

 sooty black, with bright yellow-green beak, red legs, crimson eyes and 

 orbits (? Limnocorax niger). 



Sept. 7th. Out all day from 8.30 to 5.30 in the bush with Abiga 

 down as far as opposite Igbebe, but got nothing, though I had two shots 

 at an antelope, apparently a reddish gazelle, with black patches on the 



