3l6 VOYAGE IN SEARCH 



We remarked, almoft every where on the 

 moifl ground, tracks of flags, wild boars and 

 buffaloes. We often met with numerous herds 

 of thefe laftj lyiiig down in many places, but 

 they always took to flight as foon as they per- 

 ceived us, and it was impoffible to purfue them 

 through the mud. 



In the Ifland of Pangefani, I feveral times 

 traverfed thick forefts of the palm, known by 

 the name of corypha iimhracidifcray where I favv 

 fquirrels of the fpecies cdWtdifciuriis palmarmny 

 which fled on all lides at our approach. 



The inhabitants had erected near the fea- 

 ihore fome fhcds, under which they had placed 

 hurdles of bamboo, where they laid the fifh 

 when they wiihed to dry it by fire in order to 

 prefer ve it. 



The natives, aware of the danger of living 

 near marfhes, which render the northern coaft 

 of Pangefani very unwholefome, have not built 

 any village there. It was in the midft of thefe 

 very marfhes' that we picked up the germ of an 

 extremely contagious dyfentery, which made 

 on board our fliips ravages fo much the greater 

 as we were already prodigioufly enfeebled by 

 the long ufe of aliments of a bad quality, which 

 were grown flill worfe during the voyage. I 

 alfo was attacked by this diforder, which car- 

 ried off a great many of our people. 



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