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CONTENTS. 
on a concealed reef — Dangerous position — The exertions of the 
crew — Amada Bue visits the ' Wilberforce’ — Reaches the Model 
Farm — Importance of divisional compartments in iron vessels — 
* Shimaboe, the Attah^s uncle — Lieutenant Webb endeavours to 
hold communication with the Filatahs — Agajah, Chief of Priapi — 
A letter and present sent to the King of Rabbah — The Model Farm 
abandoned — Lieutenant Webb*s reasons for so doing — Departure 
from the Confluence— Sickly condition of the crew — Proceedings 
at Ab6h — Obi’s treacherous behaviour — Attempt to seize Lieute- 
nant Webb — Mr. Carr’s supposed fate . . . 335 — 377 
CHAPTER XIL 
Communication of the Egyptians with the interior of Africa — Con- 
quest of many tribes in the interior— Sabaco, an Ethiopian prince, 
reigns over Egypt — Immigration of Copts into Ethiopia — Some 
of their customs adopted by the Abyssinian s — Analogies between 
many of the observances of Abyssinia and West African tribes — 
Religious rituals of the West Africans probably borrowed from 
the Egyptians — Orders to priesthood — Mysterious ceremonies asso- 
ciated with the priestly ofiice — Secret religious societies of Africa — 
Ofierings of the deities — Sacred animals — Customs connected 
with mourning for the dead — Yam festival, its apparent connexion 
with some Coptic ceremony — Various observances common to 
Egyptians, still met with among the West African tribes — Identity 
of design in many of their manufactures — Aggri beads found 
among several African tribes— Inferences to be deduced from all 
these circumstances .... 378 — 40 1 
CHAPTER XIIL 
The Slave Question considered .... 402—436 
Appendix 
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