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posed of alternating beds of aluminous masses, and of 
fine conglomerate, dipping 20® to tlie south-east. The 
trees are well cleared for some distance, but leaving 
an abundance of dense brushwood, which, indeed, in 
such a climate, it would be quite impossible to keep 
under. 
There is but one principal street; on each side of 
which the wooden houses, amounting to 180, are 
placed at irregular intervals. The population is be- 
tween eight and nine hundred, incluchug the Krumen. 
Independently of the latter, whose number varies 
much according to circumstances, the residents are 
chiefly liberated Africans from Sierra Leone. They 
are generally well behaved and happy, but extremely 
indolent. The men barter with the natives for jialm- 
oil, while the females overlook the cultivation of the 
yam and such other vegetables as form their prin- 
cipal food, and are in demand by the few white 
residents and the crews of ships which occasionally 
touch here. 
It is not a little singular that although so close to 
the mainland of Cameroons, only twenty-five miles olF, 
much of the vegetation, and nearly all the birds and 
animals, are peculiar to the island; and the native 
Edeeyahs form in themselves a contradistinction to 
their not distant neighbours, both in their physical 
characters and language. 
In Boteler’s very interesting narrative of tlie expe- 
dition of II.M. ships ‘Leven’ and ‘Barracouta’ on the 
