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flows on, restored to its former breadth, repose, and 
grandeur. 
After three days’ navigation, the Landers reached a 
village, where they found horses and men waiting for 
them, and whence they quickly made their way, through 
a continuously hilly country, to the town of Yaoorie, 
where they were welcomed by the sultan, a stout, dirty, 
slovenly man, who received them in a kind of farmyard 
A TRIBUTARY OF THE NIGER. 
cleanly kept. The sultan, who was disappointed that 
Clapperton had not visited him, and that Richard Lander 
had omitted to pay his respects on his return journey, 
was very exacting to his present guests. He would 
give them none of the provisions they wanted, and did 
all he could to detain them as long as possible. 
After an imprisonment of five weeks the Landers 
were at last allowed to leave Yaoorie, which was now 
almost entirely inundated. 
The explorers now ascended the Niger to the con- 
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