BUDDU. 
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Thursday, October ^th . — Accompanied bj Messrs. 
Schon and Brown, landed in the morning at Buddu, 
for the purpose of having an interview with the chief 
there, and putting some queries to him relative to 
the slave trade, the state of the country, and how far 
these were affected by the Filatah incursions. Our 
progress in the boat was occasionally obstructed by 
tall reeds and clumps of bushes of a beautiful papilion- 
aceous plant, [Sesbania punctata), in full blossom, show- 
ing to what an extent the river was here still beyond 
its usual limit ; the space covered by water between 
both shores being not under a mile and a half. We 
found that the chief had left Buddu to be present at a 
palaver at Iddah ; but his son, an agreeable young- 
fellow, about twenty-eight years of age, soon joined 
us ; and he, as well as some of the headmen, was very 
willing to answer all our interrogations. We were 
desired to accompany Mamansa and the other head- 
men to the court behind Mamansa’s house, where a 
great number of people crowded round us. When we 
had, after a long exercise of patience, obtained some- 
thing like silence, we were able to elicit the fol- 
lowing information relating to points which Captain 
Trotter was desirous of knowing. 
The present Attah of Iddah has ruled nearly four 
years, but the Kakauda people, a name synonymous 
with what the Africans, especially the Iddah people, 
call “ Tchabbi,” have from time immemorial been 
subject to the monarch at Iddah, and have paid 
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