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INCREASING SICKNESS. 
Sumoraziki once gained over to onr views, and 
Rabbah open to us, there would follow very little 
difficulty in holding the Attah of Iddah, and Obi, 
king of Abch (the only other chiefs of any importance 
in the Niger,) strictly by the terms of the treaties they 
have entered into with us. 
Continued dropping down with the stream until the 
evening, when we anchored near a village. 
October Qth. — Dr. Stanger has undertaken to work 
the engines, with some assistance from Mr. BroMm, 
the only engineer able to move out of bed. The 
steam has accordingly been got up, and we have been 
making good way all day. Mr. Willie is now too ill 
to have any charge, and I have been obliged to attend 
to the duties of the ship, as well as to the sick. 
Captain Trotter is a little better; but Commander 
B. Allen and Lieutenant Stenhouse are both danger- 
ously ill. At half-past twelve, the vessel touched the 
ground, but by reversing the engines, was soon got 
from one fathom to three fathoms’ water. About five 
in the afternoon the vessel again struck on a bank 
near Adama Dalu, but soon got off. Shortly after- 
wards, anchored for the night near the left bank, on 
the opposite side of the river to Buddu, a Kakanda 
town already spoken of. 
she could reacli Rabbah in seven and a quarter days of twelve hours, 
at full speed. Six days would be required for her return, with 
proper prudence, until the river is better known. 
