hector's visit to FUNDAH. 251 



*' After leaving the Quorra, on the morning of 

 the 19th June, I received Lieutenant Allen on 

 board, at the mouth of the Shary, and entered 

 that stream at ten a.m. The breadth of the 

 river, at this season of the year, is about a mile 

 and a half, but broken by sandbanks and small 

 green islands into three or four channels. The 

 southern bank is high and sprinkled with trees; 

 the northern one is lower, with jungle here and 

 there. We proceeded slowly against the stream, 

 and at noon stopped at a sandbank near some 

 fishermen's huts. Ibrahim, the interpreter, was 

 sent on shore to a small village, and purchased 

 some eggs and dried fish ; we then proceeded 

 until dark, when we stopped under the bank, the 

 Kroomen lighting a fire on the shore and sleep- 

 ing round it. 



" 20th. We proceeded at daylight through 

 the same sort of country : at noon the river 

 became contracted to a breadth of five hundred 

 yards, with a strong current, which the Kroo- 

 men had great difficulty in stemming by track- 

 ing the boat : both banks being thickly covered 

 with wood, they were obliged to wade up to 

 the middle in water. At sunset we emerged 

 from the woods, and entered a noble reach of 



