386 THE FOREST A>^D THE FIELD. 



and finding that bush-deer were the only game to 

 be found about the neighbourhood, I returned on 

 board to sleep. The next morning, at daylight, 

 ileade and I came ashore, and we clambered up 

 the sides of the falls, for at the time we visited 

 them, the volume of water was very small in com- 

 parison with what it must be in the rainy season. 

 We then pulled to Cribbee town, about four miles 

 to the northward, and landed by a small river, 

 where we got some cocoa-nut milk, and bought 

 some quaint-looking spears with barbed heads for 

 fish-spearing, after which we returned on board, 

 when both of us felt unmistakable symptoms of 

 fever. I took strong doses of quinine every few 

 hours, as I felt I was in for it, but it did not pre- 

 vent the attack, and the next day I was prostrate. 



February 8. — We weighed anchor at 8 a.m., and 

 drifted down with the current ; for we scarcely had 

 a breath of air to fill the sails during the next four 

 days. Both Reade and I had a pretty sharp attack ; 

 but when we arrived at the entrance of the Gaboon 

 on the evening of the 13th January, we had some- 

 what shaken oif its debilitating eff'ects. 



