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a woman had the conscience to ask us a fathom of cloth 
for a small fowl. We had however the good fortune to 
procure a calabash of palm wine, a little further on, 
without which we should scarcely have been able to con- 
tinue on our march ; the sun, after nine o’clock, becoming 
extremely powerful; even with this, it was with the utmost 
difficulty I could prevail on the people to push on, the 
road being absolutely impracticable for a man with any bur- 
den ; and it was four o’clock before we reached Kincaya. 
Here I found the greatest difficulty in getting any thing to 
eat; at last, however, we procured an old hen and some 
manioc, which, stewed up together, gave us a scanty re- 
past; and after an hour’s rest we set off for Inga, which 
we reached at seven o’clock, equally to our own satisfaction 
and that of our companions, who, expecling us back the 
first evening, had feared Jest some accident had befallen us. 
On both days we saw great numbers of deer of two dif- 
ent species, one evidently an antelope; the other a large 
animal of the deer kind, of which was a herd consisting of 
thirty or forty. They seemed not to be very shy, but were 
too far off for our shots to take effect. In two rayines which 
we passed, we observed rather more rapid streams. The 
country to the eastward was low. 
This excursion convinced us of the total impractibility of 
