160 DESCRIPTION OF 



be uninteresting on account of its sameness, and 

 useless from its repetition. 



On leaving Eboe we emerged from a com- 

 paratively winding and narrow stream bordered 

 by stagnant swamps and overgrown with im- 

 mense forests, the sameness of which distressed 

 the eye, while the extent baffled the imagina- 

 tion, into a wide and splendid river. The banks 

 were but thinly wooded, and in many places high- 

 ly and extensively cultivated. The various reaches 

 of the river became longer, and in its serpentine 

 course it assumed a more graceful character, while 

 the inhabitants on its banks were more civilised 

 and better apparelled. We found the better 

 class attired in the Houssa loose shirt and 

 trousers, instead of the common wrapper of 

 the Eboes. The country generally presented 

 that formed and decided appearance which 

 characterises land that has been long under 

 the dominion of man. The banks, although 

 elevated fifteen or twenty feet above the sur- 

 face of the river, continued flat until we arrived 

 at Kirree, where we met with the first bluff. 

 From thence the country gradually rises, until at 

 Attah it attains an elevation of from two to three 

 hundred feet. From Attah upwards a range 



