JOURNEY FROM BADAGRY TO KATUNGA. 
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as before, and in addition had milk. The caboceer told us that 
Kiama, the capital of Borgho, was only one day’s journey by a 
horse from his town; that these people were only a band of thieves; 
that their country was small, but independent ; that they infested 
the roads of Youriba, and stole all they could catch. 
At 7 A. M. started, accompanied by the caboceer and a great 
number of attendants. The country well cultivated for a little way 
outside the town. We met upwards of six hundred men, women? 
and children, carrying loads; they had travelled all night, and were 
guarded by men with bows and arrows and swords, ten or twelve 
armed men marching between each fifty ; the road woody, but the 
trees low and stunted. Here, for the first time, I saw the small 
stunted accacia. The soil red clay. Passed several villages that 
had been destroyed by the Fellatahs, some very large. The shady 
trees are now desolate, the walls covered with weeds. After closing 
with the range of rocks we entered a beautiful valley in the midst 
of them, planted with large shady trees and bananas, having green 
plots, and sheets of water running through the centre, where the 
dingy beauties of Tshow were washing their well-formed limbs, 
while the sheep and goats were grazing around on the verdant 
banks. After passing this lovely valley w r e crossed another ridge 
of rocks, and at 9. 15 arrived at the town of Tshow, where, after 
getting housed, we turned to and cleaned our arms, as they say the 
road is infested with robbers. We afterwards heard that the king 
of Eyeo was going to send an escort, and was quite rejoiced at our 
near approach. Got a specimen of the Tsheu fruit and leaves : the 
fruit is the size of a large pear, having a stone inside, covered w ith 
a pulpy cream-coloured substance, which is good to eat. The stone 
is said to be poisonous; the outer rind of the fruit is put into their 
soup. 
After sunset a caboceer arrived from the king of Katunga or 
Eyeo. His attendants, horse and foot, were so numerous that 
