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while the seed of the latter, furnishes an agreeable 
tonic bitter, and in the hands of the Buyeh-rupi works 
wonders as a medicine. Some of the straighten branches 
of the young Tespesia or red-wood are used as spears. 
Among the numerous objects of botanical interest 
we noticed a species of ebony or Dyospyros; a dark- 
colored wood like mahogany, either a Swietenia or 
Trichilia; a fine tree said to produce good timber, 
either Myroholanus or Termimlia; a climbing shrubby 
Cissus, with pul]3y berries ; a small shrub with alter- 
nate simple leaves, apparently a Unona; a Caprparis, a 
spiny herbaceous shrub with alternate leaves; one 
small ^xvih\)j Flacourtiana; a moderate-sized 
tree, alternate leaved, with a resinous bark ; the fruit, 
a sort of yellow plum, was acerb and disagreeable ; 
a herb with simple opposite leaves, something like 
a Lawsonia; a species of AcJiyrantJies, a branched 
shrub with opposite leaves ; and, lastly, a herba- 
ceous plant, simple leaved, either a Plumbago or 
Sahadora, used by the natives to excite vesication, 
which it does in a very short space of time. 
Mr. Thomson’s object was to obtain as many speci- 
mens as possible of the animals and birds, and he 
fortunately succeeded in procuring some new species, 
and many of those already known, but imperfectly 
described from furriers’ skins. 
Among these w'ere the red and black colobus, 
Golohus rufoniger; the black colobus, Golobm satanas, 
called by the Edeeyahs, Mu-cho; Burnett’s mona, 
Gercopithecus Burnettii; the red-eared monkey, Cerco- 
