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loads. Kinami consists of seven different clusters of 
huts, built on a bank about eight feet above the river, 
and the inhabitants are Nufi people. The rapacious 
Filatahs lately paid them a visit, and took away the 
whole of their crop of corn. There is now a native 
of Kinami for sale in the market of Egga, (two hours 
higher up the river,) who was carried off from his 
home by them. A number of Kinami people have 
come on board during the day ; among them an old 
woman, who came to consult me for an aggravated case 
of lepra. I did what I could for the poor creature, 
and the chief expressed his gratitude by thanking me, 
and sending off a jar of native beer, which was rather 
acid, but not otherwise disagreeable. The patients 
were by no means improving, and during the day the 
carpenter’s mate, a quarter-master, the captain’s steward, 
one of the sappers and miners, and a private marine, 
were added to the sick-list. 
The name of the headman at “ Kinami” is Atchieko. 
lie was appointed by the Nufi king, Magia, who 
now resides at Sakuma, a town beyond Rabbah, and 
has been totally divested of power, being in fact a 
slave himself since the conquest of the country by 
the Filatahs. A tribute to the amount of 20,000 
cowries is annually exacted by the Filatahs from the 
Kinami people. This sum, although apparently not 
large, they have often great difficulty in having ready 
for their tax-master. Robbed as they continually are 
of their agricultural implements, their clothes, their 
