CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 193 
Having examined every thing here, and being told by 
our guide that there was a banza not much higher up, 
where we might get some victuals, I proceeded towards 
it, scrambling over the rocks with infinite fatigue for an 
hour, and then penetrating through a close wood (the first 
we have seen) near it, until it became quite dark. This 
seemed to be the haunt of buffaloes, whose dung fresh 
dropped, still smoked. At length about eight o’clock we 
reached the landing place; and by the light of the moon 
proceeded over new hills towards the spot where our guide 
supposed the banza to be situated. I soon however dis- 
covered that he had lost his way; and seeing a fire on the 
side of a hill, and hearing human voices, I desired him to 
enquire; but the people were afraid to come to us, and 
we could not find any path to get to them, After some 
time spent in halloing, we understood from them that the 
banza was deserted. 
As we had neither victuals nor water, and nearly 
choaked with thirst, it was necessary we should endeavour 
if possible to procure the latter ; and after an hour’s walk 
one of the men came down from the hill, and conducted 
us through thick underwood, where we were almost obliged 
to crawl, and through grass twice our own height, to a spot 
clear of wood on the side of the hill; and finding it uscless 
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