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a woman had the conscience to ask us a fathom of cloth 

 for a small fowl. We had however the good fortune to 

 procure a calabash of palm wine, a little further on, 

 ^yithout which we should scarcely have been able to con- 

 tinue on our march ; the sun, after nine o'clock, becoming 

 extremely powerful ; even with this, it was with the utmost 

 difficulty I could prevail on the people to push on, the 

 road being absolutely impracticable for a man with any bur- 

 den ; and it was four o'clock before we reached Kincaya. 

 Here I found the greatest difficulty in getting any thing to 

 eat ; at last, however, we procured an old hen and some 

 manioc, which, stewed up together, gave us a scanty re- 

 past; and after an hour's rest we set off for Inga, which 

 we reached at seven o'clock, equally to our own satisfaction 

 and that of our companions, who, expecting us back the 

 first evening, had feared lest some accident had befallen us. 

 On both days we saw great numbers of deer of two dif- 

 enl species, one evidently an antelope ; the other a large 

 animal of the deer kind, of which was a herd consisting of 

 thirty or forty. They seemed not to be very shy, but were 

 too far off for our shots to take effect. In two ravines which 

 we passed, Ave observed rather more rapid streams. The 

 country to the eastward was low. 

 This excursion convinced us of the total impractibility of 



