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CHAPTER Vi 
Lirevrenant Hawkey having returned with a part of 
the presents for the chiefs, and provisions for the journey, 
I this morning (28th) determined to set out for Mavoonda 
to bargain for some canoes ; and was just on the point of 
departure, when the Macayo paid me a visit, and in- 
formed me, that if I purchased any canoes, I would find 
myself taken in, for that ata day’s journey above Mavoonda 
the river was again obstructed by a fall named Sangalla, 
over which I should not be able to get the canoes: this 
information at once throwing me again into as great un- 
certainty as ever, I determined, instead of going to pur- 
chase canoes, to visit this Sangalla without delay. It was 
however some time before I could procure a guide, when the 
old gentleman, who had ledme to Mavoonda, again ottered 
himself for half a piece, whom I was forced to accept. As 
he assured me we should be back at night, I took only Mr. 
Galwey and four men, with a very short day’s provisions, 
not wishing to open a fresh case of preserved meat (which 
is now our sole resource for the people). After passing 
