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selves wfthin the hunter's reach. The guns we have seen 

 among them are of Portuguese or French manufacture, and 

 of a great length ; each has usually several fetiches fastened 

 to it, to prevent it from doing the owner any injury. 



Aug. 17. In the morning we prepared for our return to the 

 boats, when Mr. Tudor, being too ill to move, was obliged 

 to be carried in a litter made of one of the black men's 

 blankets ; the other invalids, exceeding half the party, were 

 sent forward with him under charge of Mr. Hodder, while 

 I went to take leave of the Chenoo. Having performed this 

 ceremony, and given him two fathoms of bafts, I quitted 

 Cooloo, came up with the invalids in a short time, and 

 reached the boats at noon, when a tent Avas immediately 

 pitched on shore for Mr. Tudor, who was now in a most vio- 

 lent fever. The complaints of the other men were confined 

 to fatigue and blistered feet. 



During this excursion we seldom met with water to fill 

 our canteens (that of the river excepted), more than once a 

 day, and the springs were generally very small. The only 

 provisions we could procure were a few fowls and eggs, 

 some cassada root, green plantains, and beans ; but all in 

 quantities totally insufficient to supply the daily expendi- 

 ture of 20 men. We did not see a single sheep or goat, and 

 not above two or three pigs. Palm wine, which we found 



