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Sept. 11th In the morning got two canoes for six fa- 

 thoms to go down to Yanza, where we had left the Ino-a 

 men. Half way down we found one of the hippopotami 

 dead, lying on a bank, in a putrid state. The people of 

 this part of the river having been fetished from eating it. 



At Embomma a good hippopotamus is worth a ; its 



flesh is sold in the markets. 



Here our boatmen wanted to stop, pretending they were 

 unacquainted with the river below. I punished them by 

 carrying them six miles lower down. 



The rapids we had before been obliged to haul the canoes 

 over were now smooth, the river rising about six inches 

 a day. The velocity must be greatly increased in the rainy 

 season, but still the canoes are said to work on it. Total 

 rise as marked by the rocks eleven feet. The clouds 

 charged, and the barometer falling; temperature of the 

 river decreasing ; at Condo Y'^ango it was 77°, and now but 

 74°; the lime stone springs 73° 



At one, stopped to procure men to carry our things to 

 Inga, the Inga men having returned thither without waiting 

 for us. 



Sept. 12th With great difficult}^ got a foomoo and four 

 of his boys to go down for two fathoms each, paid before 

 hand, and a canoe to ferry us across the creek to Condo 



