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would occupy the whole of the next day in palavering, and 

 as Dr. Smith, Dawson, and Butler, were so very ill, that an 

 hours delay in reaching the ship might prove fatal, I seized 

 all the canoes, and a foomoo. 



Sept. 16". Unable at day-light to procure any canoe men, I 

 set off with our own people, and at 3 P.M. reached the Congo. 



Terrible report of the state on board : coffins. - — - - 



Sept. 17- At day -light sent ofFall the sick in double boats, as 

 ^ve\\ as the people who had been up with me, to the transport; 

 hired fifteen black men to assist in takins; the Consro down 

 the river below Fetish rocks. The river bordered by a level 

 plain, four miles deep, to hills of little elevation. Good 

 place for a settlement 



Mangroves commence at the east end of Tall Trees island. 



Muddiness of water and red colour begins at the 



land, which latter is a bar of sand covered with clay, and 

 under water when the river is at its heio-hlh. 



Extraordinary quiet rise of the river shews it, I think, to 

 issue chiefly from some lake, which had received almost the 

 whole of its water from the north of the line. 



Conmiencement of its rise was first observed above Yel- 

 lala, on the 1st of September; on the 17th of September, at 

 Tall Trees it had risen seven feet, but the velocity was not 

 at all encreased. 



