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to add to their importance, they will be quite ready 
to have the boast of a new operation, which is in itself 
so simple. Self-interest, then, will prompt them to 
attend to vaccination, and in process of time, the 
people themselves will be able to appreciate in some 
degree the value of Jenner’s immortal discovery. 
I have seen few people iu England submit so quietly 
and willingly to medical or surgical treatment as the 
Africans do. I have, for instance, proposed to a man 
to be operated upon for cataract. He has sat down. 
The lens has been depressed, and he has afterwards 
w'alked quietly into his boat. 
Ajimba, the son of the chief of Muye, who was the 
owner of the slaves we took from the canoe on our 
way upwards, came on board with two mallams. They 
were accompanied by the slave boy on whom I operated 
for cataract. He was delighted that he could count 
the number of fingers held to his eye, of which he was 
before stone blind. 
Mamansa, asked me to give him a charm to pre- 
serve his health and strength. 
Euddu appears to bo the chief town of Kakanda. 
It is situated on the right bank of the Niger. The 
town, which consists of two parts, may contain from 
three to four thousand inhabitants. The huts are 
circular, built of clay, and, what I had not before seen, 
on the summit of the cone of grass which forms the 
roof, there was an earthen pot, black and polished. 
