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all the reported wells and fresh-water rivers without suc- 

 cess, Tampassook excepted, which I believe will always 

 afford good water within its mouth. 



Four miles southerly from Bangawan is the Kimanis 

 river, the boundary of the Sooloo Territory, described by 

 Dalrymple as ceded to the East India Company. We 

 had been informed that this was a stream like the Tam- 

 passook', forcing its fresh waters into the sea. The pre- 

 vailing drought had its effect here, and we were informed 

 that it could only be obtained by sending our casks in 

 native canoes up the river, an experiment which, in the 

 present state of affairs, I was not disposed to try, inde- 

 pendent of our having obtained as much as we required 

 for the present. This river may be entered at high water 

 by boats or canoes ; the rollers are not troublesome on 

 the eastern side of the mouth, where three spits, parallel 

 to the coast, break it, and afford shelter within. Trade 

 may be carried on with these people, who are of two 

 distinct races, Bajow and Kadyan, but caution is neces- 

 sary. A Malay orang-kaya governs at the beach, and 

 from several facts I noticed, I think their mountain 

 friends, the Kadyans, would not hesitate to obtain by 

 force that which might be denied in barter. 



Our operations here were attended with some difficulty. 

 On the evening of my first visit, when unaccompanied by 

 proper force, a feeling was exhibited which very much 

 resembled a disposition to be troublesome, and I thought 

 that 1 perceived suspicious motions, in recovering their 

 arms which had been left concealed in the bush. An 

 Oyster catcher, of a species anxiously wished for, but so 

 often missed by me as to obtain the appellation of " the 



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