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TOWNS AND VILLAGES. 
the eastern Ibu country to Bonny, where he was sold to 
the Spaniards. He said his native country had a broad, 
deep and very rapid river running through it — “ No 
canoes could stand on it:”* — they traverse it on a bridge 
made of bush-rope ; four “ bars” are charged for the 
passage of seven slaves ; the ropes are renewed every 
month, and a man has charge of it, appointed by the 
King: — The river is called Emmeleh, it is very rocky — 
joins the Niger ; — the country has mountains higher 
than those of Fernando Po ; there is a large rock with 
caverns and water “ decked over,” where the natives, who 
cannot make resistance, conceal themselves from the 
Filatahs, and in other inaccessible fastnesses in the rocks, 
which they ascend by ladders, and draw them up after 
them. He called them forts. He said the principal 
town in the Appah country is Paloh ; is walled and 
staked ; — the houses similar to those of Iddah, but 
larger ; — cotton and indigo are cultivated in abundance ; 
— they make cloth; — they are pagans, and sacrifice 
goats when people are sick. In Attam, the country 
next to the westward of App^h, the same language 
nearly as that of Iddah is spoken ; they come to the 
App^h market at Paloh ; he crossed the river, and then 
came all the way on foot to Iddah, then by land to 
Bonny ; there were three thousand slaves ; they passed 
by many towns, as Manni, BahM, Bitkrrh, Veni^n, Poa, 
Ikundu, Ikundu-manni ; he had forgotten the rest, as 
he was a very young boy when captured, and the account 
was somewhat vague, though he spoke very good English. 
The banks of the Niger are populous, with the 
