August 19th.--Early in the morning I was visited by the caboceer, who came to pay his morning visit. The night had been very wet, and I was still suffering a little from fever; however, I was determined to proceed on my journey. We were furnished with a good breakfast, of which I partook a little. I had now become quite the African in my diet, which agreed with me very well, and I would recommend all travellers to adopt the same plan. When my party were announced to be all ready for the march, we were conducted through the principal market-place, where we found a fine young bull tied to one of the trees. The gay young caboceer here prostrated himself, and after the usual rubbing with dirt, presented me with this bull, which he sent to Abomey by carriers. During my stay at Savalu the caboceer supplied me with seventy-seven large calabashes of ready-cooked provision, besides plenty of fruit, the principal of which, in use at this season, were the gwaba, pine-apple, oranges, popans, mangoes, and the kidney cachu. The caboceer, before leaving his town, begged me to do him the honour to insert his own and the name of his head men in my book. I here give them, for they tend to show the names peculiar to different countries:-- Caboceer Bagadee. Head men Agbuzzee. Kootakoo. Naghwoolyaemadah. Dissou. Naghohennah. Agyddymoosee. Agbadyea. Kpwaghooda. Agoyae. Daffo. Bozavee. Kudjo. Koko. Attlah. Athaly. Dakphway. Boka. Vaugh. Kogilee. Lyhoo. Bossou. Gbazoo. Oosa. Atholoo. Mirahoo. Modjekossee. Azamodoko. Jayaloogo. Kudjo 2d. Akyea. Jagadidjee. Yakadya. Caboceer’s Head wife Selamee The thermometer now ranged from 80° to 73° of Fahrenheit. It may be well to observe here, that the name of Kudjo is not peculiar to this country, but rather to the Gold Coast, and is only given to those who are born on particular days. After finishing the above ceremony, we marched on our journey, bearing W.S.W., crossing the range of Savalu Mountains. The grass, which was very long (being nearly six feet), and hanging across the path, quite wet from the previous night’s rain, soon drenched us as much as a heavy rain would have done, but the sun very soon dried all of us, and perspiration succeeded. At two miles we reached a fine open plain studded with shea butter-trees, now ripe; their fruit was lying in large quantities under the trees.