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the people. We were however tired of this mode of con- 

 veyance, the inconvenience of sitting being hostile, besides 

 the tedious rate, the paddles giving three strokes, and then 

 waiting until the canoe had lost her way, so that they did 

 not go two miles an hour, nor had our persuasions any 

 effect in making them get on a bit faster. 



During our dinner a boxing match took place between 

 two of the canoe men about a little salt, at Avhich they 

 both handled their fists with much science; and after 

 drubbing each other heartily, the others interfered, and the 

 business being made up, both the combatants performed 

 Songa. 



At four, reached one of the rocky promontories, round 

 which the current set so strong, that the canoe men refused 

 to attempt passing it, neither Avould they cross the river to 

 get out of the current, pretending they were at war with the 

 people on the other side. I was therefore under the necesr 

 sity of attempting to haul the canoes up the stream by the 

 rbcks with our own people; and had succeeded in getting 

 one of them past the obstruction into still water, when, by 

 the neglect of one of the men, the stern of the second canoe 

 stuck fast in the rocks, and the current taking her on the 

 broadside, broke her right in two, and several of the ar- 

 ticles that were in her sunk, and others were swept away, 



