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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Their journey this day was vexatiously short, not having exceeded
four miles, for it was utterly beyond the power of - Page 763
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Their Journey This Day Was Vexatiously Short, Not Having Exceeded Four Miles, For It Was Utterly Beyond The Power Of Either Of The Landers To Persuade The Superstitious Natives, Who Conform Only To Their Fetish In These Matters, That The Robbers Would Be Afraid Even To Think Of Attacking White Men.

They halted at a small town called Shea, which was defended by a wall.

It appeared to possess a numerous population, if any opinion could be formed from the vast number of individuals that gathered round them, immediately on their entrance through the gateway. A stranger, however, cannot give anything like a correct estimate of the population of any inhabited place, in this part of Africa, for as he can only judge of it by the number of court-yards a town or village may contain; and as the one court yard there may be residing at least a hundred people, and in the one adjacent to it, perhaps not more than six or seven, the difficulty will be immediately perceived. Generally speaking, the description of one town in Youriba, would answer for the whole. Cleanliness and order and establish the superiority of one place over another, which may likewise have the advantages of a rich soil, a neighbourhood, and be ornamented with fine spreading and shady trees; but the form of the houses and squares is every-where the same; irregular and badly built clay walls, ragged looking thatched roofs, and floors of mud polished with cow-dung, form the habitations of the chief part of the natives of Youriba, compared topmost of which, a common English barn is a palace.

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