ANCHOR OFF EBOE. 143 



Lander and myself when on our way up in a 

 boat and canoe. A little below the town is a 

 branch leading to Bonny, running south-east. 

 When the river is full, the Bonny people pass 

 up this branch when they come to trade for 

 palm-oil and ivory ; but it is dry during several 

 months of the year : indeed, canoes can only 

 pass this bar during two months of the twelve, — 

 and it was dry when Mr. Lander and I passed, — 

 at such times the bar literally forms the bank 

 of the Quorra. 



The morning being hazy, very little of the 

 surrounding country was discernible. What we 

 saw was flat and swampy, the banks of the river 

 being very low. Since getting under weigh, our 

 course had been south -south -west and south- 

 west for five miles ; south-west, three miles ; south 

 by west, five miles ; south, a mile and a half ; 

 west, two miles. 



At 9. 30, we came to an anchor off Eboe. The 

 distance we had accomplished to-day was thirty- 

 three miles : — from Iddah to Kirree, the distance 

 is fifty miles — five miles we drifted ; from Iddah 

 to Eboe it is about one hundred, and from Eboe 

 to the river Nun, about two hundred miles. The 

 wind was high from the southward. 



