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growing. The width of its expanded smooth surface is ge- 

 nerally about one* English mile. It is here extremely beau- 

 tiful, and if the hills were covered with wood, it would be 

 another Ransfiord.-f- A number of spectators came down 

 from the village. I descended quickly, but found no bar- 

 gain made. The inhabitants had danced a Sanga. A gen- 

 tleman promised us a canoe next morning. The dark 

 long sky, which about a month ago at the horizon was 

 shown to us as a sign of the approach of the rainy season, 

 appeared in the evening at the north side of the river. The 

 night was moonlioht. 



Sept. 6th. Having at last succeeded in hiring two canoes, 

 the baggage was carried by them along the shore, while we 

 proceeded by land through two villages over the plain and 

 down to the river at the upper end of the rocks, Avhich are 

 disposed like a horse shoe. At this latter place the canoes 

 were dragged over two rapids. Four hippopotami were 

 seen here, at which I fired several shots, and hit one of 

 them in the head, when he started up and disappeared. 

 We proceeded round the point into the bay of Bobomga, 

 and behind the first long rock, which was found to consist 

 of crystallized lime-stone, of which perhaps the narrow 

 tongue of land is also composed. 



At the bottom of the bay is a small lake, into which the 

 water tlowed through a creek, which perhaps indicated the 



* Dr. Smith is very loose and vague in all his descriptions and statements, that 

 fall not witliin the sphere of Botany. Captain Tuckey roakes the width of the 

 River here from three to four English miles. Ed. 

 •j- A firth in Norway, or a large bay. 



