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scattered with rocky barren islets. The river is here, judg- 

 ing by the eye, not more than i mile broad, and I estimate 

 the distance from Yellala at 12 or 14 miles. Upwards my 

 view was stopped by the sudden turn of the river from 

 north to S. E. ; the concavity of the angle forming a large 

 .bay, apparently freer from obstructions than below. I 

 descended a most precipitous path to the river side, where 

 I found four women fishing with a scoop net ; they had no 

 canoe, and I learnt that persons Avanting to cross the river 

 are obliged to go from hence to the ferry above Yellala. 

 Just where the river shuts in, in turning to the S. E., on a 

 high plateau of the north shore, is the banza Inga, which 

 we understood was two days march from Cooloo (though its 

 direct distance is not above 20 miles,) and that it is out of 

 the dominions of Congo. The only other information I could 

 get here was, that the river, after a short reach to the S. E., 

 turned again to the north ; and the appearance of the hills 

 seemed to corroborate this information ; but as to the state 

 of its navigation, or the possibility of getting canoes, I could 

 not acquire the slightest notion. 



On the return of the people with water from the river we 

 dined where the men halted, and set out on our return for 

 the boats ; at eight o^clock we reached Cooloo (having this 

 day walked ten hours), where we found Mr. Tudor in a 

 violent fever. 



