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who escorted the damsel, was much younger than his 

 bride, and treated with very Httle distinction by herself 

 and the rest of the party. I should think there is no 

 waste of tendre amom* in this clime ; the present 

 occasion looked very business-like indeed. We passed 

 four or five days on the journey, halting each night at 

 some one of the little villages, which were very com- 

 fortless, and I was glad when we reached Enmillane, 

 a large and populous village near Cape Atchen, from 

 which a sweeping view of great extent may be 

 obtained of the coast, both to the south-east and 

 north-west. I had now reached the farthest point 

 attained by any of our company to the westward, as 

 Mr. Martin and myself had done to the eastward on 

 the former protracted journey. The whole distance 

 in a bee-line from our farthest to the east and west, or 

 more properly north-east and north-west from the ship, 

 were not perhaps more than a hundred and twenty, and 

 sixty miles respectively, but many hundreds of miles 

 were passed over in their accomplishment, from the 

 irregularity of the coast-line and frequent occasions of 

 return. 



On this last jom*ney I had no civilised companion ; 

 for eleven days Tuski were my sole comrades, nor 

 had I the slightest uneasiness among them, although 

 now visiting a quarter quite new to us, and of whose 



