4 JOURNEY FROM BADAGRY TO KATUNGA. 
in the walls, and at the doors ; and whenever we went near them 
they would run off. Captain Adamooli told us to keep a good 
look out after our things, for the people here were great thieves. 
I said he must make his men keep watch, as I held him answerable 
for whatever might be lost. Accordingly he sent the greater part 
of his troop, he himself taking up his station at the principal door, 
where they kept drumming all night. 
This morning, Friday, 9, there was a good deal of palavering 
between the captain and the old caboceer, while we sat patiently 
waiting the removal of the baggage and stores from his house. I 
found the old caboceer sitting on a chair with an umbrella held 
over his head ; his aged counsellors by his side. The old gentle- 
man was carefully counting all the articles as they were brought 
out, laying a small piece of stick on each ; they were then counted 
over a second and a third time, after which the bundles were tied 
up ; not however before they obliged me to count them over, and 
till I said all was right. After waiting about two hours for carriers, 
the old caboceer said with the most invincible gravity that he would 
not procure a single carrier, alleging that he had not received 
enough for a present. We then declared we would return to Ba- 
dagry, and let the king know of his conduct, and made a show of 
going that way ; but the old caboceer was not in the least moved. 
Poor Captain Adamooli, however, prostrated himself before me, 
laid hold of my legs, and said he should lose his head if I went 
back. 1 therefore returned, and he loaded his own people ; the 
old wretch not giving us a single man. 
Having seen the whole of the baggage off, we started in the 
evening, and proceeded on our journey. We learned in fact that 
we were not now in the king of Badagry’s territory, but in a district 
of Eyeo, which is called Yarriba by the Arabs and people of Houssa, 
and that the name of the capital is called Katunga, and that it is 
thirty days’ journey. Finding we could get no men to carry the 
