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scapes, if it was not quite naked. Some scattered Adun- 

 sonice, stripped of tiieir leaves, were almost the only trees 

 that were visible. A few minutes only were allowed to 

 me for examining the rich vegetation of the Fetishe rocks. 

 The steep cliffs and the impenetrable thickets of shrubs, 

 climbers, and lofty trees, limited my acquisitions to a most 

 superb climber fPoli/an. monog.), a Limodorum, and a 

 Liliaceous plant, the thick fibrous stalks of which (vvithoul 

 leaves) are used by the natives for making ropes. The 

 sea-breeze set in late as usual. We passed several villages. 



We are now under the rounded mountains, of which 

 Taddi Enza^izi is the highest ; perhaps it may be from a 

 thousand to fifteen hundred feet. They seem to be naked, 

 with the exception of some solitary trees and dry grass. 

 Groups of the Maha palm are seen in small valleys be- 

 tween the hills, and shrubs of a Mimosa are common at 

 the river side. We arrived soon at the market-place of 

 Embomma, where a number of negroes bad assembled. 

 The Captain's intention was to go to the banza this evening, 

 but when the iSIafook came on board and promised to 

 accompan}^ him to the King's residence the following 

 morning, the journey Avas put off. 



July 27. The negroes intruded themselves upon us be- 

 fore we had left our beds. I went into a boat in order 

 to visit Molineaux's island, which at the river-side consists 

 of a steep rounded rock. A patch which had been set 

 on fire opened a way down to the more level parls. Here 

 I found several new and brilliant plants, and lofty trees 

 M'itli u})right leaves, which I had not seen before. 



