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JOURNEY FROM BADAGRY TO KATUNGA. 
straggling, and may be said to contain 4000 inhabitants. At 
8 A. M. passed the town of Loko, where we changed carriers : the 
country well cultivated, and planted with corn, yams, &c., and 
rising into gentle hills and dales. At 8. 30 left Loko, which is a 
considerable walled town ; at 9. 30 halted under a tree to tighten 
my hammock ; at 10 halted at the eastern town of Saloo ; there 
being three of that name close together, and all apparently equally 
large ; the western one walled, the other two not walled. The 
country between Loko and this place but little cultivated, and 
thickly wooded ; the soil a red clay and gravel, with some large 
pieces of clay iron-stone that looks as if it had passed through the 
fire, being full of small holes, perhaps by the water wearing away 
the soft parts. In this part of the route I obtained the flower of 
the butter tree of Mungo Park. The tree is almost bare of leaves 
when in flower, and until the rains are nearly over, and is then in 
luxuriant foliage. The flower has eight petals and eight leaves, 
and of a pale yellow. At 10. 30 changed carriers and left Saloo; 
at noon, halted at the town of Laydoo. The caboceer’s house 
was under repairs, but we got a good room, with plenty of pro- 
visions. He sent into the country for milk and honey ; the latter 
we got ; the former not to be had. We here saw a great number 
of traders. 
Friday, 20th. — Morning clear. Last night we had a visit from 
the caboceer and the principal people of the town, to inquire 
what would make their town large and flourishing as it once was. 
I told them, that to encourage people to come and settle in it 
by treating them well, and also to encourage them to come and 
trade, and plant plenty of corn and yams, and then poor people 
would make money, and get children ; that no man ought to have 
one hundred wives and another none, but that every man ought 
to have only one wife. The latter part of my advice was 
laughed at, though the first was highly approved. I told them, if 
