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chart, with plantations of beans and tobacco ; the 
peasants stood to stare like Icelanders, leaning on 
oblong-bladed paddles six feet long, or upon alpen¬ 
stocks capped with bayonets ; the “ scare-crows ” 
were grass figures, with pots for heads and wooden 
rattles suspended to bent poles. On the right 
bank a block of hills narrows the stream, and its 
selvage of light green grasses will contribute to the 
“ floating islands.” Higher up, blocks and boulders 
of all sizes rise from the vegetation, and prolong 
themselves into the shallower waters. There are 
two distinct bluffs, the westernmost marked by a 
tree-clump at its feet, and between them lies a 
baylet, where a dozen palms denote the once 
dreaded village Bemandika. The second block, 
400 to 500 feet high, bears on its rounded summit 
the Stone of Lightning, called by the people Tadi 
Nzazhi, vulgo , Taddy Enzazzi. The Fiote lan¬ 
guage has the Persian letter Zh (j), sounding like 
the initial of the French “jour so Lander (“On 
the Course and Termination of the Niger,” “Journal 
Royal Geographical Society,” voh i. p. 131) says of 
the Island Zegozhe, that “ zh is pronounced like z 
in azure.” This upright mass, apparently 40 feet 
high, and seeming, likethe “ Lumba” of Kinsembo 
to rest upon a basement, is very conspicuous from 
the east, where it catches the eye as a watch-tower 
would. At the bluff-base, a huge slab, an irregu¬ 
lar parallelogram, slopes towards the water and, 
