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the people for the dead was shewn in a very 
striking manner. The dead body is wrapt in 
cloth of the country, or European cotton, and 
placed in a small hut by itself. More cloth, as it 
can be got, is wrapt round it, till, in the course of 
some years, it swells to an enormous size, and is 
then judged fit to make a respectable funeral. To 
contain this accumulated mass, a grave is dug, 
nine feet long, five broad, and of a depth equal to 
the tallest palm-tree. The graves, when complet- 
ed, are adorned with elephants' teeth, mugs, jars, 
glass bottles, and other similar ornaments. 
Captain Tuckey now sailed up the riv^er, which 
was here bordered by high ridges of rocky hills. 
One precipice received the name of the lover's 
leap, the being thrown from which formed the 
punishment for the guilty wives of the king of 
Embomma and their paramours. Sailing higher, 
the river became narrow and confined within steep 
cliffs, and as the great Yellala or cataract was 
announced to be at no great distance. Captain 
Tuckey became apprehensive of not being able 
to sail much higher. He landed, however, and 
went some miles up the country to visit the Che- 
rioo of Noki, where he hoped to procure guides 
and information. He found the monarch seated 
in much more savage pomp, and with less of Eu- 
ropean ornament, than his neighbour of Embom- 
ma. The floor was covered with lion and leopard 
