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CHAPTER XX. 



Stop at Iddah. — Get aground. — Return doivn the River. — 

 Arrive at Eboe. — Pass down the Benin Branch by mis- 

 take. — Pass Hyammah. — Hostility of the Natives — Arrive 

 at King Boy's Barracoon, — Letter from Colonel Nicolls. — 

 Cross the Bar of the Nun. — Voyage to Fernando Po. — 

 Return to England. — A Boat picked up on the Passage. — 

 Safe Arrival. 



On the 121th June, at 11. 30 a. m. we got un- 

 der weigh, and at 1 p. m. anchored off Iddah. 

 Here I took on board the forge, and everything 

 else that I had left behind in April ; also five 

 goats which I had left in kid, and I was happy 

 to find our stock was increased by eight during 

 our absence. There was also a bay mare and a 

 sheep with the boy John, whom I left ill with 

 a disorder named craw craw, an infectious 

 disease, or an aggravated form of the scabies : 

 he had perfectly recovered, and came on board 

 with a smooth skin. Abboka was at Damuggoo, 

 I inquired the fate of Amerboo, my late trade- 

 woman, and found that she had been obliged to 



