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than the former. I was occupied with laying in plants 
ull late in the evening. 
August 3. Yesterday the village of the Captain was re- 
moved in about the same space of time as that which had 
been requisite for its erection. ‘'l’o-day, at day-break, the. 
schooner proceeded, with the assistance of oars, along Boka 
de Embomma, and anchored nearly opposite to the middle 
of it, where the rock was overgrown with thickets of 
shrubby plants. An alligator was seen swimming near 
the shore. Lofty trees over-shadow the steep sides of the 
rock, which rises to the height of four or five hundred 
feet. Its upper parts are almost naked, I was ordered 
on board the Congo, in consequence of some misunder- 
standing between Tudor and Cranch, relating to the am- 
munition belonging to the latter, and of some irregularity 
which had taken place with respect to the boats. 
August 4. Accompanied the Captain to the rock Taddi 
Mansoni on the opposite side. Plains and deep vallies 
vary with hills, which sometimes terminate in peaks and 
grotesque cliffs. Groups of the Mimosa spinosa and some 
cultivated patches were scattered about. We saw in our 
way the skeleton of a hippopotamus. We measured a large 
Adansonia, which at two or three feet above the root ‘was 
found to be forty-two feet in circumference. ‘The river is 
now no longer divided into several channels, but continues 
to be free from islands to a considerable distance. Its 
breadth here I calculated to be about the same as that of 
Drammen (in Norway) at the bridge. I mounted the hill, 
whose base consists of a yellow mica-slate, which con- 
