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JOURNEY FROM KATUNGA TO BOUSSA. 
Wednesday, 29tli. — Wawa is the capital of a province of the same 
name in the kingdom of Borgoo ; it is in the form of a square, and 
may contain from eighteen to twenty thousand inhabitants. It is 
surrounded by a good high clay wall and dry ditch ; and is one of 
the neatest, most compact, and best walled towns between this and 
Badagry. The streets are wide, spacious, and airy, the houses of 
the coozie, or circular hut form ; the huts of each house being con- 
nected by a wall, forms an airy and open space inside, and does not 
take away from the regular appearance of the houses. One of the 
coozies next the street has two doors, which forms an entrance into 
the interior, into which the other coozies open. The plan of the 
one in which I lived may serve for all, except the governor’s and 
that of the widow Zuma. This plan will afford a fair specimen of 
the accommodations of Wawa. The governor’s house is surrounded 
by a clay wall, about thirty feet high, in the form of a square, having- 
large coozies, shady trees, and square clay towers inside. 
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A. Sleeping and sitting-rooms. c. Little houses for holding grain. F. House of entrance. 
B. Stables. D. Houses of the slaves. 4. Places for cooking. 
The marriages of the Wawanies are very simple. The pagans 
make up matters with the girl first, give the father or mother a 
present, and all is right. The Mahometans read the fatha, and 
make a present ; read it again, and part, when tired of one another. 
