Return to Baffo--Anxiety of my Caboceer--Rejoicings for my Return--Our March--Fine Plain--Plants--Neutral Ground--Natives of the Dassa Mountains--Agriculture--The Annagoos, dangerous Enemies--Poisoned Arrows--Poisonous Plants--Alarm of my Attendants on my plucking it--Fatal Effects of this Plant and Dread of it by the Natives--Number of the Natives blind, supposed to be the result of it--Unsuccessful Attack on them by the Dahomans--Spiral Rocks--Hostile Demeanour of the Natives--They follow us with Menaces--Some Account of these Mountaineers, and of the Dassa Mountains--The Blue Eagle--Cataracts--Beautiful Plain--One of my Cases of Rum broken by a Carrier--Twisted Marble of Variegated Colours--Path covered with Pepper-trees--Monkeys--Logazohy--Mayho’s Town--The Caboceer--The Merchants--Their Names--Carelessness with respect to Fire--Visit of the Caboceer. I was told by some of my people whom I had left at Baffo, that the captain or caboceer had almost starved himself, having for some days after my march from Baffo to the Fellattah country refused food. He expressed his certain belief that in the event of his returning without me to Abomey he should lose his head. The character of the Dahoman is proverbial for being easily depressed, and as easily elevated. I was certainly a very welcome sight to all my people whom I had left at Baffo. Immediately after my arrival a messenger was despatched to Abomey to acquaint the King with my return. He had sent a messenger daily to Baffo to ascertain whether any tidings had been obtained of my safety. These communications were kept up by a number of messengers stationed at intervals between Abomey and Baffo. After a short palaver, in which my motives for clandestinely leaving Baffo were condemned by them and justified by myself, I broached one of the rum kegs I had left at Baffo when I left for the Dabadab Mountains, and gave each of my people a dram. This soon settled all differences, and in a short time the merry dance succeeded to doubts and extreme anxiety. The whole of the following day, August 14th, was spent in rejoicing, drinking peto, and dancing; and early on the following morning arrangements were made for marching on our return to Abomey. My excellent old friend Kpatchie, the caboceer of Zoglogbo, who had spent the evening with us, was again at Baffo by day-break, with a guard of one hundred men to accompany me on the first part of my journey. The caboceer of Baffo, Agassadoo, had also one hundred men ready to accompany me, making in all, with my own people, three hundred armed men. My men, who accompanied me on my journey to Adofoodia, through the excessive fatigue which they had undergone and too freely indulging on the previous night, were so completely worn out and feverish, that it was arranged to leave them to their own discretion to return to Abomey by the nearest route; but with orders not to be later than ourselves in arriving in the capital.