ABBAFOOH — AGOODAH — KAKARAH. 15 



with his hands, and then putting them over his 

 head as if in the act of throwing sand on it, in 

 token of submission and respect to the wooden 

 figure before him : and so great was his terror, 

 that it was some time before he could be pre- 

 vailed on to rise from his respectful posture. 



Our interpreter went to the town by land, and 

 returned in a canoe : a creek communicates with 

 the town out of the Niger. 



In the afternoon of the 26th of August, we 

 got under weigh. Our course lay in a northerly 

 direction, as we passed a town on the right bank 

 named Abbafooh, another named Agoodah, and 

 a third termed Kakarah. The people of these 

 towns, we were told, live by pillage, plundering 

 all the canoes they meet with. The King of 

 Attah sent his war-canoes, took them by sur- 

 prise at night, and destroyed one of their towns 

 by setting fire to it, and it is now a heap of 

 ruins. When we came abreast of Whalee, a 

 large town lying on the eastern bank of the river, 

 an immense number of natives were continually 

 running along the banks to look at the vessel. 

 This reach lay about north-north-west. 



We halted at 6. 45 p. m. near a town named 

 Bacbagee, situate on the left bank of the river. 



