236 JOURNEY TO YIMMAHAH. 



a short time, until the proprietor of the house 

 came. I engaged him to conduct us to Potin- 

 gah, and we set out again, my conductor hold- 

 ing me on my horse, as the sun was now very 

 powerful and my weakness fast increasing. I was 

 unable to proceed far, and in an hour's time was 

 obliged to stop and be lifted off again at another 

 farm-house, where I lay for some time almost in 

 a ritate of insensibility. 



In the evening I was aroused by Sarsfield, who 

 had become alarmed at my not appearing at Po- 

 tingah, and had found me out by my guide 

 going and informing him of my situation. It ap- 

 peared that he had had some difficulty in getting 

 away from Fundah after I had left ; and Smith 

 the mulatto, who was ill of dysentery, refused to 

 accompany him. He had left a bag of cowries 

 with him, and the king promised that he would 

 send him down, in a canoe from Potingah, as 

 soon as he recovered. As the sun was now less 

 powerful, and there was a pleasant breeze, I was 

 mounted on my horse again, and, about eight 

 o'clock in the evening, was once more afloat in 

 the same abominable canoe which brought me 

 from Yimmahah. 



