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TRAVELS IN AFRICA. 
it were several extraordinary high rocks, bearing 
in their form more the appearance of art than 
nature. They halted for that night at Tenakie, 
a large walled town belonging to a prince named 
Sego Amadi, who calls himself king, and in 
which light he is treated by the people of his 
own town, and by them only. The town is situate 
in a fertile valley, surrounded by high rocky 
mountains. Here again a very great fall of rain, 
and the importunities of the chief for customs 
and presents, with the usual threat of not being 
allowed to pass without paying, obliged him to 
halt until the S9th, when he reached and crossed 
the Bangayko, a considerable stream running 
north ; having been obliged for nearly a mile 
previous to reaching it to travel through a marsh, 
in which the animals and men sunk up to their 
knees, and over which the latter carried the loads 
with difficulty. Mr. Dochard's own horse was 
obliged to be carried through on poles. The 
march of the 30th was not less fatiguing than 
that of the 29th ; low swampy valleys, and high 
rocky hills, were in their turn to be waded 
through or scrambled over. They passed the 
night at a small village, situate in a valley be- 
tween too high hills, on the highest of which, 
accessible by only one narrow and rugged path, 
the chief of the town had his residence, from 
whence he had an uninterrupted view of the 
