le, and were in a state of
filth, which baffles all description. They could not by any means rid
themselves of sheep, goats, and fowls, with their train; in spite of
all their attempts to remove them, they were determined to be their
companions, and this grievance, added to the tongues of a hundred
visitors, made their situation all but intolerable.

Egga is the principal market town in this part of Africa, and is
attended by buyers and sellers for many miles round. Women here are
the chief, if not the only traders, most of them are of graceful and
prepossessing exterior, and they all practise those petty tricks and
artifices in their dealings, with which the market women of more
civilized countries are not unacquainted.

This day, April 16th, was one of the hottest they ever remember to
have felt. They found the path in much better condition, than that on
which they had previously travelled, and it lay almost entirely
through plantations of yams, calavances and pumpkins, and three or
four different varieties of corn, which a number of labourers were
employed in weeding, &c. The hoe is the only implement of husbandry
in use, and indeed they can well dispense with every other, because
the soil, during the rainy months, is so soft and light, that but
very little manual exertion in working it is required. Population is
abundant, labourers may be hired to any number; and it may be
affirmed that he introduction of the plough would scarcely be a
blessing, but on the contrary, it would furnish fresh encouragement
to the general sin of indolence.

Having crossed at noon a small but agreeable river flowing from east
to west, in which several females were bathing and washing clothes,
they shortly afterwards entered the capacious and populous town of
Jedoo. Here they were informed that the chief had been in the grave
more than a twelvemonth; and that no one having yet been nominated to
succeed him, every thing continued in a state of confusion and
misrule. They were conducted, after having waited a little, into a
large yard belonging to the late governor, and in a short time
received a visit from his brother, in company with all the elders of
the place; their conversation was, however, very unpleasant, and
their whole behaviour much cooler than was agreeable, the more so as
such a reception had been entirely unexpected.

The yard in which they resided, was perfectly circular, and walled
with huts, all tenanted by the late chi