CAPTAIN TUCKEY’S NARRATIVE. 219 
Sept. 11th In the morning got two canoes for six fa- 
thoms to go down to Yanza, where we had left the Inga 
men. Half way down we found one of the hippopotami 
dead, lying on a bank, in a putrid state. ‘The people of 
this part of the river having been fetished from eating it. 
At Embomma a good hippopotamus is wortha - - - -; its 
flesh is sold in the markets. 
Here our boatmen wanted to stop, pretending they were 
unacquainted with the river below. I punished them by 
carrying them six miles lower down. 
The rapids we had before been obliged to haul the canoes 
over were now smooth, the river rising about six inches 
aday. ‘The velocity musi be greatly increased in the rainy 
season, but still the canoes are said to work on it. ‘Total 
rise as marked by the rocks eleven feet. ‘The clouds 
charged, and the barometer falling; temperature of the 
river decreasing ; at Condo Yango it was 77°, and now but 
74°; the lime stone springs 73° 
At one, stopped to procure men to carry our things to 
Inga, the Inga men having returned thither without waiting 
for us. 
Sept. 12th With great difficulty got a foomoo and four 
of his boys to go down for two fathoms each, paid before 
hand, and a canoe to ferry us across the creek to Condo 
