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the customs of the people, Captain Clapperton engaged him to accompany the 
party as far as the city of Eyeo or Katunga, the capital of Yourriba. Having, 
therefore, arranged matters with Captain Willis of the Brazen, as to sending 
after them the heavy baggage, and keeping up, for a certain time, a communi- 
cation with them, they landed on the 29th November at Badagry ; and, under 
the sanction of the king, commenced their long journey on the 7th December, 
the details of which will be found in the following Journal. 
On his arrival at the encampment of Bello, at a short distance from Soc~ 
catoo, Clapperton had every reason to be satisfied with his reception. While 
at Kano, he had received a letter from that chief, congratulating him on his 
first arrival there, and inviting him to Soccatoo ; and when he discovered, soon 
after his arrival at that city, that Clapperton had left at Kano the presents 
intended for the Sheik of Bornou, he again wrote to him, in a friendly manner, 
very civilly informing him of the impossibility of his allowing the warlike 
stores to be sent to one with whom he was in a state of hostility: he told him, 
also, that he had letters from a most respectable quarter, putting him on his 
guard against Christian spies. These circumstances seem, by the servant’s 
account, to have preyed very much on Clapperton’s mind; and that, when 
seized with dysentery and inflammation of the bowels, which, after thirty-six 
days’ illness, carried him off, Bello’s coolness and suspicion tended very much 
to depress his spirits and increase his disorder. 
To Clapperton’s Journal is appended that of his servant, Richard Lander, 
giving an account of his return journey from Kano, after his master’s death, 
a great part of the way by a more easterly route. This journal of a very in- 
telligent young man will be read with interest. Accompanied by two or 
three slaves, and a black man of Houssa, of the name (English) of Pascoe, who 
once belonged to a British ship of war, and had been engaged to attend Belzoni 
as interpreter, with a scanty supply of money, and without presents of any kind 
(so necessary in this country), he not only made his way among the various 
tribes he had to pass through, but brought with him, in safety, a large trunk 
belonging to his master, containing his clothes and other property; three 
watches, which he secreted about his person, to preserve from the rapacity of 
Bello; and all his master’s papers and journals, with which, after a journey 
of nine months, he arrived in safety on the sea-coast. 
The friendship and kind feeling which Clapperton entertained for this 
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