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also discovered that others of the servants were sufifer- 

 ing from the same complaint ; indeed none of them 

 looked very well. I consulted with H., and it was 

 agreed that we should move camp to-night, there 

 being a full moon at the time, which afforded plenty of 

 light to travel by. I launched the raft in the after- 

 noon, and got it safely over the rapids that we had 

 forded, and moored it on the left bank of the river, a 

 little above the hippopotamus pool. I thought at 

 the time that j^erhaps a change ujd into the more 

 bracing air of the hills would do m}'self, as well as 

 the rest of the party, some good, and that we might 

 before leaving the country return here ; but my wishes 

 were never realized. That evening we dined early and 

 left camp about eight o'clock, having burned all our 

 "dasscs" (or leaf-houses), which made a tremendous 

 blaze, and the scene certainly was a wild one. Before 

 coming down to the Tackazzee I had presented all 

 the servants with a piece of red cloth, which they put 

 round their heads, and by the light of the blazing 

 sticks they looked more like so many devils than 

 human beings. They were scantily clothed, and the 

 red handkerchiefs gave them a fierce and wild ap- 

 pearance. We crossed the river, bathed in the light 

 of a full tropical moon, then marched up along the 

 road that we had come by, and we pitched camp near 

 some water in the jungle at 10.45. I was a little 



