JOURNEY FROM BADAGRY TO KATUNGA. 
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traders. At 9 A. M. halted to the southward of a village called 
Achoran, until the baggage should come up ; but the heavy 
packages not coming soon, the caboceers thinking we would be 
too much exhausted before we got into Katunga, sent us off with 
a proper escort, waiting themselves for the baggage. At 9. 30 left 
the shade, and went on as hard as the horses could possibly walk ; 
the road winding and woody; clay iron-stone, resembling lava, in 
the spaces between the granite, great blocks of which appeared on 
each side of the ravines and low hills. We had from the top of 
one of the ridges some beautiful views to the east, of fine wooded 
valleys and low rugged bare hills in the back ground. At 10. 20 
crossed a stream running to the Quorra, which is only a journey 
of three days distant. Here we drank and gave our horses water; 
passed the ruins of two towns burned by the Fellatalis. At 1 1 . 30, 
from the top of a high ridge, on which were the ruins of a clay wall, 
we saw the city of Katunga or Eyeo. Between us and it lay a finely 
cultivated valley, extending as far as the eye could reach to the 
westward ; our view intercepted to the eastward by a high rock, 
broken into larger blocks, with a singular top ; the city lying, as it 
were, below us, surrounded and studded with green shady trees, 
forming a belt round the base of a rocky mountain, composed of 
granite, of about three miles in length, forming as beautiful a view 
as I ever saw. 
At 12. 15 we entered the north gate of Katunga; there was a 
small Fetish house outside the gate, and a few others inside. We 
halted, and went into one of the caboceer’s houses until the baggage 
and escort came up. Here we got accassan ; and Abaco’s wife was 
cooking a little country soup for us, but the pot broke on the fire 
just as it was ready, and the house was in an uproar in an instant; 
only for my interference they would have come to blows. Abaco 
was ready to cry that he had disappointed us. 
At 2 P.M. the baggage having all arrived, a message came from 
