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on the coast. I am told that the fair or market 

 is held every ten days, and is attended by Eboe 

 and Attah people from the low country, and by 

 Rabbah and Fundah traders from the north. 



In the afternoon Mr. Lander returned, having 

 been unable to reach Bocqua until this morning. 

 He had slept a few hours on a sandbank, day- 

 light being necessary to enable him to find the 

 proper channel of the river. He had much diffi- 

 culty in meeting with his old friend the king, who 

 had been driven from the opposite bank of the 

 river by the Kacunda people, who possessed the 

 whole western bank of the river. He informed us 

 that the fair was attended by more than six thou- 

 sand people ; that it was held on a sandbank ; and 

 that horses, tobes, goats, sheep, rice, &c. were ex- 

 posed for sale. From the canoes going down we 

 obtained about one hundred-weight of rice for a 

 few gun-flints. All the large trading canoes had 

 a pony on board, about thirteen hands high : they 

 had little blood, and were in a poor condition. 



We remained supplying the vessels with wood 

 on the 121th. In the course of their work the 

 Kroomen found a hive of bees. They immedi- 

 ately smoked out the bees with tobacco, and ob- 

 tained about as much honey as would fill two 



