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RECORDS
OF
CAPTAIN CLAPPERTON’S
LAST EXPEDITION
TO
AFRICA:
BΏ RICHARD LANDER,
HIS FAITHFUL ATTENDANT, AND THE ONLY SURVIVING
MEMBER OF THE EXPEDITION:
WITH THE
SUBSEQUENT ADVENTURES OF THE AUTHOR.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN AND RICHARD BENTLEY,
NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1830.
J. B. NICHOLS AND SON,
25, Parliament Street.
CONTENTS
OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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CHAPTER XV.
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