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growing. The width of its expanded smooth surface is ge- 
nerally about one* English mile. It is here extremely beau- 
tiful, and if the hills were covered with wood, it would be 
another Ransfiord.} A number of spectators came down 
from the village. I descended quickly, but found no bar- 
gain made. The inhabitants had danced a Sanga. A gen- 
tleman promised us a canoe next morning. The dark 
long sky, which about a month ago at the horizon was 
shown to us as a sign of the approach of the rainy season, 
appeared in the evening at the north side of the river. The 
night was moonlight. 
Sept. 6th. Having at last succeeded in hiring two canoes, 
the baggage was carried by them along the shore, while we 
proceeded by land through two villages over the plain and 
down to the river at the upper end of the rocks, which are 
disposed like a horse shoe. At this latter place the canoes 
were dragged over two rapids. Four hippopotami were 
seen here, at which I fired several shots, and hit one of 
them in the head, when he started up and disappeared. 
We proceeded round the point into the bay of Bobomga, 
and behind the first long rock, which was found to consist 
of crystallized lime-stone, of which perhaps the narrow 
tongue of land is also composed. 
At the bottom of the bay is a small lake, into which the 
water flowed through a creek, which perhaps indicated the 
* Dr. Smith is very loose and vague in all his descriptions and statements, that 
fall not within the sphere of Botany. Captain Tuckey makes the width of the 
River here from three to four English miles. En. 
+ A firth in Norway, or a large bay. 
