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JOURNEY FROM BADAGRY TO KATUNGA. 
England ; and the belief of my going to make peace with the Housa 
slaves and the king gains ground. They have been in rebellion 
these two years, and possess a large town only two days’ journey 
from Katun ga, called Lori. The Youribanis are evidently afraid 
of them ; they say they have a great number of horses, and have 
been joined by many Fellatahs. I told them, that if the king 
made good friends with the king of England, he would send him 
every thing he wanted ; that if ships could come up the Quorra 
there would be an end of the war immediately. They said that 
canoes came up the river from Chekerie or Warrie to Nyffee or 
Tappa, and that they were ten days on the passage. I surprised 
them not a little by an account of our rivers, towers, houses, and 
especially our great guns. We had a great deal of trouble in 
leaving Ensookosoo, and it was 8. 45 before we got fairly started. 
The Fellatahs near the town had supplied us with plenty of milk ; 
we had guards inside and outside the house, and the war-horn 
blowing at intervals all night. At 9. 15 halted at the town of 
Ladooli ; the country is well cultivated, with numerous villages. 
We met numbers of trading men and women, and saw a range of 
hills bearing from east by south to south. After changing horses 
we left Ladooli, and halted at Aggidiba ; the country well cul- 
tivated as before, but the inhabitants had mostly deserted from 
the town on account of the rebellious Housas, who make frequent 
inroads into this part of the country, and have burnt several towns 
and villages. I stopped here, as I was very sick, and unable to 
ride ; but at 12 . 15 left Aggidiba ; our road through a wood of low, 
stunted, scrubby trees, on a soil of sand and gravel ; passed three 
villages, and two that had been burnt by the Fellatahs. At noon 
arrived at the town of Akkibosa : it is surrounded with trees in- 
side the walls. The caboceer was very civil, and made us a pre- 
sent of a goat, yams, fowls, eggs without number, and plantains. 
These two days we have not seen the palm-oil tree, but one of 
