14 
JOURNEY FROM BADAGRY TO KATUNGA. 
We have observed several looms going here : in one house 
we saw eight or ten — in fact a regular manufactory. Their cloth 
is good in texture, and some very fine. They also manufacture 
earthenware, but prefer European, though they sometimes mis- 
appropriate the different articles. The vessel in which the cabo- 
ceer of Laboo presented us water to drink, Mr. Houtson re- 
cognised as a handsome chamber-pot sold by him last year at 
Badagry. 
Monday, 19th. — Captain Pearce is better this morning, but 
Richard continues still very ill with severe head-ache and fever. 
About twelve o'clock we visited the caboceer at his own house. 
He had previously sent us about twenty-five gallons of rum, saying 
he heard we had not brought much rum with us ; that Eyeo people 
liked rum too much, and that he sent us this that we might give 
all his people a dram to get us a good name amongst the inha- 
bitants. 
We found his highness seated in the door-way of a room, in 
the inner verandah, and on his large leather cushion ; behind were 
his singing women ; and under the verandahs, on both sides of 
the doors, were his musicians and his headmen. He wore this 
morning a rich crimson damask robe, or shirt, and the same red 
velvet cap ; but during the visit, to display his grandeur, he 
changed his dress three different times, each time wearing a richer 
than before. The whole court, which was large, was filled, crowded, 
crammed, with people, except a space in front where we sat, into 
which his highness led Mr. Houtson and myself, one in each hand, 
and there we performed an African dance, to the great delight of 
the surrounding multitude. The tout ensemble would doubtless 
have formed an excellent subject for a caricaturist, and we re- 
gretted the absence of Captain Pearce to sketch off the old black 
caboceer, sailing majestically around in his damask robe, with a 
train-bearer behind him, and every now and then turning up his 
