4 JOURNEY FROM BADAGRY TO KATUNGA.

in the walls, and at the doors ; and whenever we went near them

they would run off. Captain Adamooli told us to keep a good

look out after our things, for the people here were great thieves.

I said he must make his men keep watch, as I held him answerable

for whatever might be lost. Accordingly he sent the greater part

of his troop, he himself taking up his station at the principal door, where they kept drumming all night.

This morning, Friday, 9, there was a good deal of palavering between the captain and the old caboceer, while we sat patiently

waiting the removal of the baggage and stores from his house. I

found the old caboceer sitting on a chair with an umbrella held

over his head ; his aged counsellors by his side. The old gentle- man was carefully counting all the articles as they were brought

out, laying a small piece of stick on each ; they were then counted

over a second and a third time, after which the bundles were tied up ; not however before they obliged me to count them over, and

till I said all was right. After waiting about two hours for carriers,

the old caboceer said with the most invincible gravity that he would

not procure a single carrier, alleging that he had not received enough for a present. We then declared we would return to Ba-

dagry, and let the king know of his conduct, and made a show of

going that way ; but the old caboceer was not in the least moved. Poor Captain Adamooli, however, prostrated himself before me,

laid hold of my legs, and said he should lose his head if I went

back. 1 therefore returned, and he loaded his own people ; the

old wretch not giving us a single man.

Having seen the whole of the baggage off, we started in the

evening, and proceeded on our journey. We learned in fact that we were not now in the king of Badagry’s territory, but in a district

of Eyeo, which is called Yarriba by the Arabs and people of Houssa,

and that the name of the capital is called Katunga, and that it is

thirty days’ journey. Finding we could get no men to carry the