BOUSHI — THE YAMYAM. 
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The insects are beginning their depredations 
upon me, biting me all over, and raising on my 
flesh small ulcers. 
I have obtained from Nammadina, the Fellatah 
horse-dealer, a detailed account of the route to Yola, 
the capital of Adamaua, passing through Boushi. 
The Moors represent the latter place to be like 
Mourzuk and Tripoli ; but they say the greater part 
of the inhabitants of Adamaua are infidels or pagans. 
The rulers are, however, Fellatahs, and therefore 
Muslims. Adamaua is a rocky country : a small 
quantity of grain is found here, with abundance of 
sheep, oxen, horses, goats, fish, samen, honey, and 
onions. The rivers of Adamaua have always some 
water in them. 
In the territory of Boushi will be found the 
celebrated name of Yamyam, where the Moorish and 
Arab merchants place the residence of the Ben- Adam 
eaters, or cannibals. I was greatly amused to hear 
my Fellatah informant most strenuously deny this 
calumny on the African race ; he asserted that he 
had been in the country, and never had seen any- 
thing of this sort. The Moors as boldly affirmed 
that such cannibals exist, although they were obliged 
to confess they never saw the people of Adamaua or 
Yakoba (name of the sultan) eat human flesh. The 
whole story of the Yamyam is of the remotest anti- 
quity, and has come down to us with many embel- 
lishments ; but, if once true of the people hereabouts, 
it can no longer be authenticated by present facts, 
