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PIRATE ISLAND. 
Isongoli, with a town near it — Isambeh; the next, 
Limhoh, being the north-west point forming the Bay 
of Amboises, with a town called Batoko. To the 
north-west of Mokali the first point is Divongoh; 
the next Enyangeh, with a town of the same name 
near the Rumbia river, which Nako said is not so large 
as the Madiba-ma-Dualla or Oameroons; it is navi- 
gable only to Batondo. 
Being desirous of visiting the singular rocky islet 
called the Pirate Island, with a view, if possible, to 
establish a friendly disposition with its wild inha- 
bitants, Nako was landed with a bottle of rum for the 
chief, as an assurance of friendship, and an invitation 
to him to come on board. After much hesitation, he 
sent his “ mate,” who said he would gladly have visited 
us before, but he was afraid of the white men. Others 
soon followed in their canoes, and brought pigs, &c., 
and traded freely. 
Captain Allen then went on shore with Com- 
mander Ellis of the ‘ Soudan,' and Lieutenant Sidney 
the surveying ofiicer, who took a set of angles for the 
different points in the bay. The landing-place was at 
one spot only, a little sandy point at the foot of the 
highest part of the island, which rises precipitously, 
and with a wild confusion of huge fragments of rock, 
strewn about. Amongst them the canoes were hauled 
up, and partly concealed. We passed round to the 
other side of the island, where the perpendicular cliff's 
form a little pebbly bay, in which the surf beats in- 
