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RESIDENCE AT KATUNGA. 
the actor burlesqued the part to admiration. This being con- 
cluded, the performers all retired to the fetish house. Between 
each act, we had choral songs by the king’s women, in which the 
assembled crowd joined their voices. 
The kingdom of Yourriba extends from Puka- on the south, 
which is within five miles of the sea, to Lagos and Whydah in 
that line; to the north to about the 10th degree of north latitude. 
It is bounded by Dahomey to the north-west, which is reckoned a 
tributary province : Ketto and the Maha countries on the north, 
Borgoo on the north-east, the Quorra or Niger to the east, Ac- 
coura, a province of Benin, on the south-east, five days’ journey 
distant ; Jaboo to the south and west. Its tributaries are Da- 
homey, Alladah, Badagry, and Maha. From the sea coast to Cho- 
cho in latitude 8° 8' north, longitude 4° 2! east, the country rises by a 
gradual ascent ; the soil of a strong red clay and mould, and where 
the woods have not been cleared, they may be considered as imper- 
vious. The trees are of great size, with most luxuriant foliage. 
From Chocho to Koosoo is a range of granite hills, running from 
west-north-west to east-south-east. These hills are of grey granite, 
bare of vegetation, and in solid masses. They are from four to 
eight hundred feet above the level of the valleys, which are narrow, 
winding, and well cultivated, and watered with innumerable small 
streams. The soil a thin black mould. From Koossoo to Eyeo, 
the country is less hilly, the hills in broken irregular ranges, and 
running principally from north-east to south-west, with here and 
there detached masses thrown up, as if by some great convulsion of 
nature. The granite of which they are composed is of a softer kind, 
and crumbling away with the weather. The valleys between these 
hills widen into plains, as they advance to the northward. In the 
hilly region, the trees are thinly scattered, low and stunted. The 
domestic animals are horses of a very small breed, and even these 
are scarce ; the horned cattle also near the coast are of a small size : 
