NARRATIVE. 



MR. OLDFIELD'S JOURNAL 



(continued). 



CHAPTER VII. 



Fundah and Bassa Canoes, — Oruka. — Mount Pleasant. — 

 Landers Seat. — Re-enter the Niger. — Bangedij. — Native 

 Superstition. — Adomah, Agongo, and Ezefo. — Assenny. — 

 Addapah. — Outturn- Curaffee. — The King's Fool. — Abba- 

 fooh, Agoodah, Kakkarah. — Whalee. — Bacbagee. — Hegagee. 

 — Accabooh. — Ofooh. — Leylan. — Atchebah. — Hedgickee. 

 — Apecteko. — Angivah . — Accoshee. — Barker s Mountain. 



The morning of the 17th of August was 

 showery, and was passed in anxious expectation 

 of the arrival of the horses at the water-side. At 

 about 2 p. M. we were given to understand that 

 the king was afraid to give us an audience, hav- 

 ing never seen a white man. 



A circumstance occurred in the evening which 

 at one time threatened fatal consequences. 



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