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BUDDU. 
time to time disposed of at villages on the banks of 
the river. At Egga she was exposed for sale in the 
market-place, where she became the property of a 
slave-merchant there; and shortly afterwards passed 
into the hands of a third master, (Ajimba,) who was 
conveying her to Muye, when we fell in with the 
canoe. The females subsequently were left at Fernando 
Po, under the care of a respectable matron, and Albert 
Gori was apprenticed to a carpenter of the same place. 
Two P.M. weighed. In the afternoon passed Buddu, 
a large Kakandah town on the right bank, (marked 
Kakanda in Captain W. Allen’s chart) ; towards the 
erening anchored for the night a little way above the 
village Adama Dalii, on left bank. At this place 
Aduku left us, promising to follow us next day, as far 
as Egga. 
Some rain fell during the early part of this day. 
In the afternoon and evening the weather was sultry 
and oppressive. Two fresh cases of fever in the course 
of the day. 
September Mth . — Got under weigh early in the 
morning. A great many villages were passed, espe- 
cially on the right bank ; many of these were inun- 
dated and deserted, the river extending far beyond its 
usual limits. 
We stopped for a short time to admire the singular 
beauty of the situation of one of the villages, which 
was built on an elevated bank close to the river, on 
the margin of a forest of palms. The natives rushed 
