Travels Of Richard And John Lander Into The Interior Of Africa For The Discovery Of The Course And Termination Of The Niger By Robert Huish
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Bullocks fetch twenty
dollars each, and those not of a very good quality.
Goats and sheep
are valued at three dollars, ducks at half a dollar each, and fowls
at half a dollar a pair. Yams are cultivated by the natives very
successfully, and are considered the best flavoured and finest of the
country. There are no cleared portions of ground on the banks of the
river, and their cultivation of the yam and other vegetables is at a
distance in the woods.
Since Lander's first return to Fernando Po from the Calebar river, he
accompanied Mr. Becroft twice to Duke Town in the Portia. In this
interval the Carnarvon, an English vessel had arrived with government
stores from England for the establishment, and as she was going to
Rio Janeiro for a cargo to take back, and there seemed to be no
prospect at present of their getting away from Fernando Po by any
other means, the Landers requested Mr. Becroft to conclude an
agreement for their passage to that place, from whence they hoped to
be more successful in finding their way to England. About a week
previously, the brig Thomas, in which they came from the river Nun,
touched at the island on her way home from the Camaroons, her
commander, Lake, supposing that they would take a passage with him.
They had now been upon the island seven weeks, and they would have
preferred staying seven more, rather than put themselves into his
power again.
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