perceived on the left side a town: the first we had yet seen, 
situated on an elevation of 6 to 10 feet above the river, and 
containing clay cottages, each with a covered court-yard; 
while higher up were some magazines or warehouses. I saw 
here no Cocoa palms ; but in the course of the day a few single 
ones occurred. The natives, who assembled on the shore, - 
to the number of several hundreds, it was fancied, men- 
tioned the name of the town as “ Amasuma” and that of the - 
river as * Oguberri^ Further on we came to two equally 
wide branches of the river, with equally strong currents, 
joining together: after some consideration, the easternmost 
was chosen, and at two o'clock we arrived at a similar place, 
but where the western channel was very narrow. We pro- 
ceeded a short way upwards; and Captain Allen caused two — 
plants to be fetched by the boat, which was towing. One is | 
probably a new Dalbergia, and one a Creeper, which I had 
watched eagerly ever since “ Sunday Island." It climbs - 
up the trees along the shore, to their very summits, and 
then drops many thread-like stalks, 6 feet long, covered at 
the top with bundles of yellow flowers, which often reach the 
ground. It appears a new genus, closely allied to Mucuna; 
and I call it provisionally Mucuna flagellipes. Both plants 
were unfortunately without fruit. Returning down this 
branch, we saw, close to the fork on the left side, a village - 
the name of which we understood to be Haddi, i. e. small 
bor. Towards sunset, we arrived again at the eastern oF 
main branch, left on Saturday, which is, at the place of sepa- 
ration, a river of 3 to 4000 feet wide : its shores are elevated 
some feet and covered with reeds and shrubs: on the left 
bank, immediately opposite to the fork, stands a village, Of 
rather tbree small ones, somewhat apart and consisting © 
clay hgts, and magazines, raised on posts. The name of the 
last of the three sounded like “ Obokriga." Not far beyond 
this we anchored, when it got dark. The general character 
of the country was the same as yesterday; but the shores 
being somewhat higher, I was able generally to see the soil; 
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