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JOURNEY FROM KATUNGA TO BOUSSA. 
fashion, I gave them one fathom of red cloth, one fathom of blue, 
some scissars, needles, beads, and silk. Yarro asked me if I would 
take his daughter for a wife; I said “ Yes,” after a great many 
thanks for my present. The old woman went out, and I followed 
with the king’s head man, Abubecker. I went to the house of the 
daughter, which consists of several coozies separate from those of 
the father, and I was shown into a very clean one : a mat was 
spread : I sat down ; and the lady coming in and kneeling down, 
I asked her if she would live in my house, or I should come and 
live with her : she said, whatever way I wished : very well, I said, 
I would come and live with her, as she had the best house. She 
kept her kneeling posture all the time I was in the house. I took 
leave of her, and went home, when one of the great men mentioned 
by Yarro waited upon me, and I gave him a present of two knives, 
some beads, and a yard of cloth. 
Thursday, 16th. — The king’s son came to-day for my advice : a 
fat, gross, tall man. He said, on my inquiring after his disorder, 
that every month he had a great throbbing of blood in his head, 
attended with pain ; that he lost the use of his limbs, and could 
not stand ; that the pain then fell down to his breast, and remained 
altogether four days, coming on always a few days before the new 
moon. I weighed him out nine doses of calomel, of seven grains 
each, desiring him to take them one at a time when the throbbing 
came on, and if he could get bled in the head to have that done 
also; and, with the assistance of God, I hoped he would get well 
before he had taken the nine doses. I had a visit also from the 
princess, for the purpose of receiving a small donation of beads. 
She would not sit down on the carpet or mat, as her father had sat 
on it when he had been in my house. Such is the custom : a 
daughter must not presume to sit where her father has sat. A wife 
of the governor of the town also came to see me. She brought me 
a present of some cowries, as she said her father had been a servant 
