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Wx^PAKI. 
mountain at the distance of four hours overland, in a 
direction W.N.W., called Wahpaki, with a town of the 
same name, which is doubtless at the back of the 
Cameroons, where the Bimbia people also said they were 
acquainted with a place of that name. A man in a 
canoe overtook us with a message from its chief, who 
wished us to pay him a visit; he said that he had 
started before “ the first cock speak,” i.e., before day- 
light, which agrees in distance with the account given 
at Kokki. The messenger pressed us very much to 
return, as his master would be greatly disappointed at 
the white man coming so near his town, and not 
visiting him. We sent him, however, a small pre- 
sent, which was the object of his solicitude, and the 
emissary went away quite contented. We rapidly 
descended the river, passing through Jibareh Creek, 
which we had in vain attempted to go through in the 
‘ Wilberforce,’ and reached our vessel soon after ten 
o’clock. Although, on this little voyage, we did not 
reach a greater distance from the sea than forty miles, 
the object Captain AUen had in view was attained — 
viz., to ascertain the nature and magnitude of the 
river, by arriving at the main undivided trunk, which 
is only eight miles above Bell’s Town, and little less 
than twenty from the sea. Indeed the real left bank 
of the river comes down as far as that settlement, 
which is on an elevation of fifty feet above the river. 
The opposite shore has a ledge of rocks, visible at 
low water, corresponding with the compact sandstone 
