IV 
CONTENTS. 
shooting — Visit to the Mountain lake — Gothic arch of palm-trees — 
Scarcity of fuel — Flying fish — Ascension — Its desolate look — 
Magnetic observations — Proceedings at that island — Arrival of her 
Majesty’s brig ‘ Buzzard' — Melancholy information respecting the 
‘ Albert' — Reported murder of Mr. Carr, and attack on the settlers 
at the Model Farm .... 33 — 75 
CHAPTER in. 
* Soudan' dispatched from Fernando Po to the ' Albert's’ assistance — 
Meet off the entrance to Nun River — Melancholy condition of the 
‘ Albert’s' crew* — Doctor McWilliain’s journal of proceeding above 
the Confluence — Kellebeh — Filatahs — Omeh, chief of Kakandah — 
Increasing sickness of the ‘Albert’s’ crew — Gori market — Tribute 
exacted by the Filatahs — Native garrulity — A slave canoe captured 
— Price of slaves — History of a slave — Buddu — Kinami — Domestic 
slaves— Nati^'es of Bushi— Ideas of a future state— Rogang, the 
Nufi chief — Egga — Form of the dwellings — Native fashion of 
painting the eyes — Religion of the Nufis — ^Dress — Price of a wife 
— Death of King Musa — Origin of the subjugation of the Nufi 
people— Zumozariki, an important chief— Vaccination— Captain 
Trotter attacked with the fever — Obliged to relinquish the further 
prosecution of the Expedition up the river. . . 7d — 111 
CHAPTER IV. 
Rogang’s opinion of the Model Farm — Illness of the engineers — 
Doctor Stanger volunteers to manage the engines — Village of 
Buddu— Kakanda, tributary to the Attah of Iddah— Filatah 
exactions — The captured slaves belonging to the Chief of Muye — 
Influence of medical men among the natives — Mallam doctors — 
Anxious to introduce vaccination— Natwe method of cupping — 
One of the officers jumps overboard in a paroxysm of fever — Saved 
by two Africans Mr, Lodge, engineer, drowned — Sickness of all 
the Europeans employed at the Model Establishment— Their 
removal Prices of Provisions— Progress down the river — Doctor 
MacWilliain s trying position — x\dvd?u’s kind wishes — Increasing 
sickness of ‘Alberts' crew, and death of Mr. Kingdon— King Obi 
