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CHAPTER IV.
14^a d ino on * was the first place at which Adams had seen
houses after he quitted Tudeny. It is a small town, consisting
of about forty houses, and some tents. The former
are built chiefly of clay, intermixed with stone in some
parts; and several of them have a story above the ground
floor. The soil in the neighbourhood of the town was better
cultivated than any he had yet seen in Africa, and appeared
to produce plenty of earn and tobacco. There were also
date and fig-trees in the vicinity, as well as a few grapes,
apples, pears, and pomegranates. Prickly pears flourished
in great abundance.
The Christians whom Adams had heard of, whilst residing
at Hieta Mouessa Ali, and whom he found at Wadinoon,
proved to be, to his great satisfaction, his old companions
Stephen Dolbie, the mate, and James Davison and Thomas
Williams, two of the seamen of the Charles. They informed
him that they had been in that town upwards of twelve
months, and that they were the property of the sons of the
Governor. (47)
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