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sion on shore to morrow at an early hour, and to renew, 
as it were, the exquisite pleasures of this day. 
July 24th. We landed on the second range of the low 
sandy islands in the river, or Monkey’s Islands (which 
name the inhabitants give to these islands, not to those of 
Maxwell). At low ebb they formed two ranges of banks, 
of which those parts which are above the water at high 
flood were thickly overgrown with a tall grass, and with 
scattered thickets of shrubby plants. One of these shrubs 
was a new genus, and another a new species of Limodorum. 
These plants and some Cyperoidee were the principal 
acquisitions of this day. I was running for a long time 
after several strand birds, but shot only a few of them. 
Galwey and Tudor were in another quarter. 1 waded to 
the island farthest to the south, and returned in a canoe. 
These islands are probably only inhabited periodically, 
and must be partly inundated in the rainy season. The 
fishing for oysters seems to be the main object of the 
negroes who live here. Large heaps of the shells of a 
Mya lay spread all over the shore, and a great quantity of 
dried and half-roasted oysters were hanging under the 
straw huts. We have not yet seen any regular built hut, 
but only thatched roofs, supported by four poles. A few 
women only were to be seen. We were proceeding to the 
northern woody side of the river, when we observed the 
fore-top sail hoisted on the boat. Innumerable canoes are 
continually passing upwards and downwards. ‘The object 
of some, that of fishing; .of others, that of drawing palm- 
wine from the trees. 
