304 SUCCESSFUL TRADING. 



The next morning I sent on shore to endea- 

 vour to purchase provisions, but found that none 

 were to be had till next day, that being market- 

 day. I ascended Bird Rock, of which a view is 

 given in Lander's Journal, and found the eggs of 

 a turtle-dove, and the nest of a very large bird of 

 the crane species : I also caught five bats. The 

 rock is composed of granite, and its dimensions 

 are fifty feet in height, and three hundred and 

 eighty in circumference. We found from two to 

 four fathoms water round its base. When the 

 river is full, very little of this rock is visible. 



On the morning of the 25th, Muzza came on 

 board, and said that Abboka had given him his 

 freedom, and that he was going to see his mother : 

 but I strongly suspected that he wanted me to 

 take him up the country. 



I now sent Mr. Brown on shore, with Abbah, 

 a trading-girl, whom I had taken on board 

 at Iddah. She broke the black-lead into small 

 pieces, each about the size of a nut, which she 

 sold for ten or twenty cowries. With this she took 

 six hundred and eighty cowries to-day ; and Mr. 

 Brown took about ten thousand, principally for 

 crockery ware, snuflP-boxes ; and looking-glasses. 



