TWO RIVAL CHIEFS. 45 



most windward depot, in a few days completes 

 her living cargo. 



As soon as we had arrived in the river, we 

 were visited by the chief of the eastern bank, 

 who assured us that he only suffered his opposite 

 neighbour, the chief of the western bank, to ex- 

 ist for compassion's sake. The only difference 

 we could perceive in these two rival chiefs was, 

 that one painted his face white, while the other 

 painted his red ; but we were so far fortunate in 

 having two vessels, as by assigning the supplies 

 of the Alburkah for one, and those of the Quorra 

 for the other, we were enabled to please both. 

 By bartering cloth for firewood, we succeeded in 

 filling both vessels by the 30th, as the natives 

 are expert axemen, and had besides a large stock 

 ready cut. Dr. Briggs and I availed ourselves 

 of the leisure in this interval to take a long ram- 

 ble in the country, and visited several of the 

 huts : those we entered had a floor formed of 

 split bamboos raised about two feet from the 

 ground ; they were clean and neat in their in- 

 terior arrangements. The shores about this part 

 are rocky and bold, and evidently of volcanic 

 origin. 



On Monday the 1st of October, we anchored 



