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return at Inga. I was however at length, after three liours 

 palavering, obhged to give him a piece and two fathoms, 

 with which he set off ; but the canoe men of this side liad 

 now gone oif, and after three hours more palavering I at 

 last procured six men to carry our baggage by land this 

 day, and until to-morrow night, for which I paid them a 

 piece of check and a bunch of beads. At length we set oft' 

 at eleven o'clock, and at noon reached Masoondy, where 

 the bearers lived, and where they laid down their loads, and 

 set off" to get their dinners; nor could I assemble tliem again 

 for two hours. We now passed over a very liilly country, 

 with some fertile spots both on the summits, on the sides, 

 and in the vallies, but the general feature is still that of 

 extreme barenness, and a total want of trees, except in the 

 ravines and round the great towns, which are here very 

 numerous. The barren hills are composed of clay slate, 

 lime-stone in different states, widi some little quartz; red 

 ochrey hills. Half past three, we reached the river about 

 ten miles from our last night's halting place ; the reach 

 running S. S. E. and forming a fine expanse or sheet of 

 water from four to five miles in bieadth, free from all 

 rocks, and having a counter-current on this side. The 

 north shore rises gently from the river till it terminates in 

 bare hills ; it is hned by a fine sandy beach, behind which. 



