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Beauvois’ Spathodea ;* (another tree, of which blossomt and 
fruit are preserved in acid), a shrubby Mimosa and species of 
Ficus, without fructification. A species of Tephrosia was fre- 
quently cultivated. I saw no Palm. The natives appeared, as 
yet, to have had no communication with Europeans ; they were 
armed with bows and arrows, much like those of the country 
near Angori; their arrows are said to be poisoned, and 
their clothes consisted of stuffs, manufactured by themselves. 
They were of a gentle nature, and the mere word * scanu” 
was sufficient to conquer their diffidence. For some presents 
which we gave them, they expressed their thanks by bowing 
to the ground, and strewing repeatedly dust on the forehead, 
perhaps twelve times ; the women uncovered the bosom and 
put dust on it. Decency amongst the women seemed to 
require, that the upper garnient should be tightly fastened 
above the bosom, so as to cover it completely. The boys 
we saw were circumcised. 
‘Towards two o'clock I returned, not feeling well, for I 
had exerted myself too much. The sun had been clouded, — 
and I had latterly protected myself with an umbrella; never- — 
theless in the afternoon and evening I felt so tired, and yet 
so heated and restless, that I cannot recollect ever having _ 
been so uncomfortable and disabled, without absolute ill- 7 
ness. Every exertion seems now to produce more or less 
this effect. Restlessness and exhaustion, burning of the skin — 
and eruptions, become quite insufferable. a 
= | Tuesday, September 14.—To-day I had to take care of the = 
1 e yesterday, and wished to arrange 
i o which purpose I had been unable to 
Dae her room or a case, and was therefore obliged to 
preserve them, as best I could, in bundles in my cabin; 
a plan which was good neither for them, nor for myself. 
My assistant, now somewhat trained, was unfortunately the 
ec * A handsome tree, ith dark scare over, ot the same genus, was 
+ A high, much. branched, leafless Euphorbic 
