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carried us with such rapidity, that it required the 
utmost vigilance to avoid the numerous rocks with 
which the bed of the river is studded for twenty-five 
miles below the Confluence. At this full season they 
were all under water, making them more dangerous. 
Our frequent narrow escapes kept up a painful excite- 
ment among the invalids. Opposite to Barraga or 
Beaufort Island we had a fine view of a section of the 
stratification ; — at one place the sandstone dips 30“ to 
the north, and half a mile to the northward the beds 
were horizontal. 
22nd . — Weighed early, and ran quickly past Iddah 
and Addah-mugu, without communicating with the 
chiefs. On passing the Oniah or Bggarah market, w'e 
found an immense number of canoes huddled to- 
gether among the bushes. As there was no dry spot 
on the island, the transactions were of necessity 
carried on afloat ; and judging from the noise and 
commotion — to which in all probability our presence 
contributed some of the excitement, — there must have 
been plenty of business on 'Change. 
The locality at which we found the merchants 
assembled, was not the same as that pointed out to us 
in going up, as the Oniah market-place; indeed, the site 
must be frequently changed, as in the ‘ Alburkah’ in 
1832 we passed a large market on the right bank near 
the Edoh river, which was then called Oniah or Oriah. 
It is probably an appellation of the Ibu people, as there 
is a town of the same name at the lower confines of 
