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CITY OF IDDAH. 
and clapping of hands, and numbers accompanied them 
down to the place of embarkation. 
Two of the officers, who had forgotten some papers at 
the Att^h’s palace, went back, and unexpectedly entering 
an apartment where the potentate and his headmen were 
assembled, found him divested of all his insignia of office, 
reduced to an ordinary size by the removal of the cotton 
paddings, &c., and with nothing but a country cloth 
round his waist. He and his attendants were all 
eagerly examining the presents, and laughing immoder- 
ately, but dispensing with the offices of fan-bearers, who 
were no longer required to screen the august features 
from the vulgar gaze. So much for the Att^h of 
Eggarah. 
The city of Iddah, the largest and the most important 
town in the kingdom of Eggarah, is built on the 
summit of the cliff, which rises nearly two hundred feet 
above the river. It extends in a direction nearly north 
and south; towards the latter point, it again sinks 
into a low, somewhat undulating, country. The land 
on the north side also slopes downwards, but again rises 
into a hill of greater altitude than that of Iddah. There 
are, on a rough computation, about two thousand huts, 
with a probable population of eight to nine thousand. 
On all sides are plantations kept in nice order, and con- 
taining Indian corn fSorghum ruhensj, sugar-cane 
(Arundo saccharumj , calabash pumpion f Fueillea 
trilobataj, ground nuts fArachis hypogeaj, bird pepper 
