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the people. We were however tired of this mode of con- 
veyance, the inconvenience of sitting being hostile, besides 
the tedious rate, the paddles giving three strokes, and then 
waiting until the canoe had lost her way, so that they did 
not go two miles an hour, nor had our persuasions any 
effect in making them get on a bit faster. 
During our dinner a boxing match took place between 
two of the canoe men about a little salt, at which they 
both handled their fists with much science; and after 
drubbing each other heartily, the others interfered, and the 
business being made up, both the combatants performed 
Songa. 
At four, reached one of the rocky promontories, round 
which the current set so strong, that the canoe men refused 
to attempt passing it, neither would they cross the river to 
get out of the current, pretending they were at war with the 
people on the other side. I was therefore under the neces- 
sity of attempting to haul the canoes up the stream by the 
rocks with our own people; and had succeeded in getting 
one of them past the obstruction into still water, when, by 
the neglect of one of the men, the stern of the second canoe 
stuck fast in the rocks, and the current taking her on the 
broadside, broke her right in two, and several of the ar- 
ticles that were in her sunk, and others were swept away, 
