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the result. However, it all passed over very 

 quietly ; and when the boys were cast off, they 

 were greeted by a general laugh from the 

 people, who had been looking on. Three 

 canoes loaded with most beautiful yams came 

 alongside as a present from Obie, and another 

 with some goats and a small bullock. In return, 

 I sent him a present of a variety of things, and 

 in the morning afterwards, having received on 

 board sufficient wood to take the vessel to the 

 mouth of the river, departed from Eboe. If I 

 had been pleased with Obie's character before, 

 I was much more so now. I had been complete- 

 ly in his power : the vessel's decks were crowded 

 with his people; they were aware that out of the 

 five white men I had living, three were confined 

 to their hammocks ; and yet I was received with 

 more kindness, and had more respect paid to 

 me, than when I visited the place before, with all 

 my crew living, and in full health and strength. 



The only incident that is worth relating on our 

 passage from Eboe to the sea, was our mistaking 

 the Warree for the Nun branch, and proceeding 

 some miles down it before finding out our mis- 

 take. We had six or seven fathoms water in it ; 

 but where we turned, it appeared to spread out 



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