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as ’Should enable tbe ‘ Wilberforce’ to reach Fernando 
Po, and in the afternoon the steam was got up, and the 
vessel hauled alongside the landing-place, to receive 
the remaining stores, &c., belonging to the model farm. 
Pour poor creatures from the Bahah country, who had 
taken refuge at the settlement, were also brought away 
at their earnest solicitations, as they dreaded the 
thought of being left behind. Their country is situated 
a day’s march, west of Mount PattMi; and judging 
from their industrious dispositions, it is probably well 
cultivated; but the destroying Pulahs had found their 
way there, and obliged the wretched people to seek 
another home. Before leaving the Confluence, Yarriba 
George, a stoker, was discharged, at his own request, 
as also Harvey and Finlay, two men who had served 
some years in one of the "West Indian regiments — sub- 
sequently as interpreters in the Expedition — and were 
now desirous of visiting once more their native town, 
Rabbah. The latter person wrote Arabic, and had 
excellent certificates of character with him. By him 
Lieutenant Webb forwarded, as a present to Ilassaman 
Zaiki, King of Rabbah, one silk velvet tobe, two scarlet 
caps, and eleven thousand cowries, together with a 
letter, in which he thanked Ilis Majesty for not having 
interfered with the settlers at the model farm, and ex- 
pressed the hope, that should Her Britannic Majesty’s 
government see fit at any future time to renew the 
attempt, the same amicable feelings, would be mani- 
fested: the disadvantages of the Slave Trade, were 
also represented. 
