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CONTENTS. 
crews from fever — Insupportable heat and closeness of the atmos- 
phere— Visits from spakes— How accounted for— Drs. Stanger 
and Vogel ascend Mount Patteh — Stirling Hill selected as the best 
locality for the Model Farm— First instalment of purchase money 
paid to the Attah of Eggarah — Model Farm utensils and furniture 
landed — Malam Sabah — Towns on the banks of the Chaddah — 
Mr. W. H. Webb left in charge of the ‘Amelia' tender and Model 
Farm — Fever progressing at an alarming rate in all the vessels — 
Death of Mr. Nightingale — Mortality in the vessels — Weekly con- 
dition of the crews generally— Captain Trotter decides on sending 
the sick to the sea-side in the ‘ Soudan —Meeting of the Com- 
missioners— Hie sick received on board the ‘ Soudan'— Increase of 
the fever on hoard the ‘ Wilberforce’ . . 336—369 
CHAPTER XV. 
Recapitulatory remarks— The entrance to the River Nun— The extent 
of the Delta — The Nun the principal outlet — Dense forests — In- 
creasing population as we ascend — Various nations — Conquests of 
the Filatahs — Lobo, the chief Judge of Iddah — Schools — Religion 
— Advance of Mahomedanism— Simple architecture — Description 
of a native dwelling— Cooking— Native beer of the Pagans— 
Politeness of the natives in the interior — Treatment of the women 
—Languages very numerous— Interpreters speak many languages 
fluently — Haussa, the language of commerce — Dress and ornaments 
—Growth of cotton, indigo, &c.— The love of traffic,, the ruling 
passion— Markets — Dilatory traders— Lander's promissory notes 
— ^The principal articles of trade enumerated — The average profit 
on European goods stated— Erroneous estimate of the quantity and 
price of ivory by Lander . . . 370 — 40 / 
