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neck, right breast, and part of her right arm, were covered with a 
scurf, like a person very ill with the small pox : the borders of the 
scurf were bare, raw, and inflamed. This is the disorder the young 
man’s mother died of, to whom I gave the medicines at Kiama. 
When the disease reaches the toes and fingers, they first contract, 
and then drop off ; when, in a short time after, the unfortunate 
person is relieved by death, as they have no cure for it, nor do 
they attempt any. I called the woman, and asked her if she 
suffered much pain : she said no, nor did it itch. She sent for 
some yams, and offered them, as she said my looking at her would 
do her good. 
At 10. 30 the messenger having finished his breakfast, we left 
Injum. He gave me his horse to ride, as I could not get the old 
Wawa mare to go on without a great deal of beating. At noon 
halted at the side of a brook, to water the horses. Here end the 
hills and the pudding-stone of which they are composed, and the 
rocks are now a dark gray slate, which moulders away with the rains, 
the soil a strong blue clay, with deep gullies formed by the rains. 
At 1 left the brook : the country thickly wooded with tall trees, 
amongst which are a number of the acacia or mimosa, many of them 
thrown down by the elephants, for the purpose of feeding on the 
upper and tender branches. The traces of elephants, buffaloes, 
and the larger kind of antelopes called in Bornou corigum, are 
numerous. At 2. 40 halted at a village of the Kumbrie, or Cam- 
brie, a race of Kaffirs inhabiting the woods, on both sides of the 
river. They made a great difficulty in procuring me a drink of 
water, so I mounted and left them, and at 3. 30 arrrived at a branch 
of the Quorra, called the Menai, close to its junction with a second 
branch. The Menai is about twenty yards in breadth, and about 
two fathoms in depth ; the current hardly perceptible, and the 
water dark and muddy ; that of the branch into which it runs 
being about thirty yards in breadth, with a strong current, about 
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