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Altitude 164 21 0 
82 10 30 
0 16 0 
82 26 30 
Z.D. 7 33 23 
D. 21 6 8 
Latitude 13 32 45 
Longitude 43 min. 56 sec. of time, or 10° 59' West. 
May 27th. — Early in the morning we set forwards, and 
after travelling four miles arrived at Sibikillin. Here the 
water which suppHes the town, is collected in a deep rocky 
hollow. There are plenty of fish in the pool, but the 
natives will not eat any of them, nor allow them to be 
taken, imagining that the water would immediately dry 
up. Cautioned the soldiers against catching any of them. 
At night one of the town's-people found our guide's 
horse in the woods, and brought it to the town. Gave him 
fifteen bars of amber, and a Barraloolo, &c. 
May 28tli. — At day-break set forwards, and about three 
miles east of Sibikillin descended into a valley, where I 
saw the first Shea trees,* some of them loaded with fruit, 
* Shea, or vegetable Butter tree. See Park's Travels, p. 203, 352. 
