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Kuddu by the Filatahs. Some officers landed, and 
were much pleased, not only with the dense forest 
scenery — among which the umbrageous Baohoh, with its 
pendant fruit, was conspicuous — but also with the 
frank and joyous reception of the inhabitants. In this, 
their new locality — where they hoped the intervening 
stream would protect them from their relentless perse- 
cutors — they had already raised comfortable dwellings, 
and were engaged in different native manufactures. 
Several looms were here in busy ply on narrow cloths 
of blue and white cotton, the dye of the former pro- 
duced by a fine description of Tephrosia, which grows 
abundantly in most places. Palm-oil, palm-nuts, goora- 
nuts, shea butter, tobacco, rice in small grass bags, fowls, 
broad-brimmed hats, &c., were exposed for sale in a sort 
of market-place. 
It had been an'anged that one of the medical officers 
should remain at the Model Farm, and on its being 
explained by the interpreter, that a white doctor, or 
“ S^liki’n Mkgoni,” would be near them, they all clapped 
their hands in apparent gladness, and it was soon 
known aU over the little community. 
Perhaps in no part of the world are English medical 
men in higher estimation than in Africa, where they are 
not only looked on as the healers of infirmities, but are 
supposed to be invested with miraculous knowledge, 
and powers of good or evil, surpassing even the native 
Ju-ju, or Fetiche men. Most of the people pressed 
forward, shaking hands in their own fashion, and offering 
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