Chapter I: Front Matter

RECORDS
OF
CAPTAIN CLAPPERTON’S
LAST EXPEDITION
TO
=AFRICA:=

BY RICHARD LANDER,
HIS FAITHFUL ATTENDANT, AND THE ONLY SURVIVING
MEMBER OF THE EXPEDITION:

WITH THE
SUBSEQUENT ADVENTURES OF THE AUTHOR.

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IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

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LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,
NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1830.

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J. B. NICHOLS AND SON,
25, Parliament Street.

CONTENTS
OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

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CHAPTER X.

Page

Character of the Africans in general — Their social qualities
considered — Succinct remarks on the Natural History of the
Interior — Yam Yams — Arabs — Falatahs — War of the latter
people with Bornou and Fundah 1

CHAPTER XI.

The Author resumes his Narrative — African huts — Recreations
and evening amusements of his Master and himself — Illness of
Captain Clapperton — His sufferings — Perfect resignation
under them — His death — Burial — Character 57

CHAPTER XII.

The Author’s severe indisposition and distress of mind —
Conduct of Bello — Departure from Soccatoo — The Author almost
perishes of thirst in the “Goober Bush,” where he is deserted
by the faithless Pasko — The King of Jacoba — Horrid death of
that monarch’s slaves — The Author’s arrival at Kano 82

CHAPTER XIII.

Pasko — The Author pays his respects to the Governor, and
leaves Kano — Chooses, near Bebajie, the road to Fundah —
Almena mountain — The Author is seen and recognised by
horsemen from Zeg Zeg — Arrives amongst the people of Bowchee
— Their manners — A girl’s lamentation on being sold by her
mother — The Author enters the immense plain of Cuttup —
Anecdote of an old woman 100

CHAPTER XIV.

The Author overtaken at Dunrora by four armed horsemen from
Zeg Zeg, who force him to accompany them back to Zaria — His
reflections — Arrives in Zaria — Treatment of the King and his
son towards the Author — His entrance into Coulfo in Nyffé —
Revisits Wow Wow — The noted widow Zuma 128

CHAPTER XV.

The Author becoming entangled, whilst crossing a river, in the
stirrups of his horse’s saddle, is thrown from its back, and
narrowly escapes drowning — Arrival at Khiama — Eccentric
conduct of the Prince of that State — Anecdote of his
messenger — Pasko’s thieving propensities turned to account —
The Author enters Katunga, the capital of Yariba — His
reception by Mansolah, its monarch — Song of five hundred of
his Wives — Fetish-hut 176

CHAPTER XVI.

Ebo the celebrated fat Eunuch — The Yaribeans not very
delicate in the choice of what they eat — Dress of the
different people in the interior — Treatment of invalids —
Tattoo marks of different nations — The Author is urged to
become Son-in-law to Mansolah, Generalissimo of his forces,
and Prime Minister of State — Names of Towns — Departure from
Katunga — Anecdote of a gang of robbers — Mungo Park’s son —
Arrival at Badagry 201

CHAPTER XVII.

Novel method adopted by Europeans for conveying slaves on
board their vessels — Conduct of the Portuguese Merchants,
resident at Badagry, towards the Author — The White Negroes —
Manners and ceremonies of the Badagrians — Horrid indifference
with respect to the Shedding of Human Blood — Murder of two of
the King’s wives by moonlight 238

CHAPTER XVIII.

The Fetish-huts and tree at Badagry — Owing to the
insinuations of the Portuguese the Author is examined by the
Priests of the Fetish, and compelled to swallow bitter water,
being the only European that ever underwent that dreadful
ordeal — His thoughts when informed of the circumstance —
Astonishing preservation from an expected cruel death —
Sacrifices of human beings under the branches of the
Fetish-tree, exceeding in atrocity any thing heard of before —
Song of the inhabitants, with Adólee at their head, on the
occasion — The Author, on his visit to a Portuguese pirate,
discovers the sacred Fetish-tree of the Badagrians growing in
the heart of the forest, and covered with dismembered corpses
of human beings — The Portuguese 252

CHAPTER XIX.

Captain Laing, of the Brig Maria, of London, hearing that an
Englishman was at Badagry, comes from Whydah to fetch the
Author — His reflections on leaving Badagry, and on reaching
the British vessel — The Maria sails for Cape Coast, where the
Author lands, and is taken on board the Esk sloop of war,
which Vessel sails for England — The Turtles — Arrival in
England, &c. 276

WANDERINGS
IN
AFRICA.

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