SALT LAKE AT BISHI. 
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Fandah to Akpeko, the port or wharf of Doma, from 
which it is distant ten hours. By land, from Fandah to 
Doma, it is six days. From Akpeko to Bishi, in the 
Apah country, three days. This, from the somewhat 
agreement of the distance, must be the Abushi of the 
Malam Sabah, though one gives two, and the other three 
days. 
Salt is found and gathered near Bishi, at a salt lake, 
or pool, two or three hours’ ride in circumference. Its 
depth is to the arm-pits. It hurts the skin : it has no 
canoes. There are no hills in the neighbourhood, but 
some in the distant Aw^h country. The Malam also 
said, that two days from Amagedi, towards Aw^h, 
which, however, does not agree in the distance, there is 
a salt lake, which in the dry season is only midleg deep. 
The Fandah people trade up the ‘ dark water.’ They are 
of the Birrah nation, as well as the natives of Koto’n 
Karafi; the inhabitants of Toto and of Abajeh, are 
Nufawa, or of the Nufi nation. 
We believe there is a very large slave market at Bishi, 
or at Okari, from which they used to be sent overland, 
and not down the Chadda, to Bonny or old Calebar. 
They are now conveyed overland to the markets on the 
Niger, belonging to Iddah, thence by the river and 
connecting creeks, to Lagos, &c. 
At Fernando Po, a native of the Apah country, in 
which Bishi is situated, though he did remember the 
name of that town, told us that he came with a Kafilah, 
of about three thousand persons, across the country to 
Iddah ; and thence he was sent, again overland, through 
