THE FORMER EXPEDITION, 
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two vessels, ‘ Quorra’ and ‘ Albiirkah,’ whicli per- 
formed that nnsnccessful and fatal voyage. They 
were lying on the shore in the next cove, called 
Goodrich Bay. As Captain Allen had passed a 
whole year in the Niger on board the little ‘ Albur- 
kah,’ it was with some degree of painful interest, — 
which a sailor usually feels for a vessel he has long 
served in, — that he saw the poor little craft lying high 
and dry on the shore, in rapid decay ; the decks were 
gone, and the iron of the hull so corroded that there 
were many large holes through the sides. The en- 
gines and boilers were lying scattered about in 
fragments, and nearly concealed by the tangled vege- 
tation on the beach. The ‘ Quorra’ being of wood 
had been broken up, and people were burning her 
