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.
* * * * * J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, 25, Parliament Street.
CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
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CHAPTER X.
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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