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JOURNEY FROM BADAGRY TO KATUNGA. 
we gave to Abaco, the king s messenger. The caboceer was very 
inquisitive about England. 
Saturday, 21st. — Morning cold and clear. This night the ther- 
mometer has been as low as 55° in the open air. The coldest time 
in this country, as, I believe, in all others, is the hour before day- 
light, or rather before sunrise. The town is large and populous, 
containing certainly above six thousand ; it is surrounded by a belt 
of trees, rendered impenetrable by the crossing thorny creepers, 
through which there is only a narrow pass at the gates. The 
country, for a couple of miles outside the gate, well cultivated. 
At 9. 15 entered the walled town of Namah, the road now winding 
and woody ; changed carriers ; and at 9. SO left Namah. The country 
plain, and a clay soil. At 10 A. M. crossed a stream called Juffee 
or Moussa which runs into the Quorra at, or opposite to, Nyffee. 
At 11. 80 arrived at the walled town of Leobadda : there is a range 
of broken rocks, like an immense wall, on the east side of which the 
town is built. We were accompanied hither by the caboceers of 
Atepa and Namah, with all their train, to guard us from the Burglio 
robbers who frequent the road, as the king of that country has his 
capital only one days journey with a horse from this place. Passed 
two ruined villages ; the road woody and winding. We gave the 
two caboceers a dram before starting, as they had been very kind 
to us. 
Sunday, 22d. — Clear and cold ; north wind during the night ; 
thermometer, 56°. The town of Leobadda is situated on the east 
side of a ridge of granite, the tops of which are broken into large 
masses, some of them forming the most grotesque figures imagina- 
ble ; they run in a direction from north-east to south-west, and 
are from fifty to sixty feet above the plain, and join the hills to the 
south and east. Leobadda contains about one hundred and fifty 
houses, with from thirty to forty souls in each ; it is walled ; the in- 
habitants are poor, but civil ; we were well supplied with provisions, 
