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back with a shock that left him insensible for a 

 few minutes. They Mere re-oiled, and made 

 play again more cautiously. We now saw an in- 

 teresting display. Laying their left hands upon 

 each other's shoulders, they alternately caught at 

 the heads and legs of each other. After a severe 

 struggle the victory was again Jacko's, who took 

 his gigantic antagonist under the knee, lifted him 

 fairly in the air, and threw him in the most ap- 

 proved style, his shoulder-blades first touching 

 the ground. Although there were between two 

 and three thousand people present, and their 

 champion had been overthrown, the greatest 

 good humour prevailed, and the two principals 

 walked off the ground, the observed of all ob- 

 servers, in a most amicable way. 



On laying the Quorra aground, we were for- 

 tunately enabled to replace the copper sheathing 

 which had been rubbed off from her bottom, 

 as in these seas the " teredo navalis " abounds 

 in an extraordinary degree. The exposure to 

 which I was subjected while doing this, how- 

 ever, brought on a severe return of intermit- 

 tent fever, and I was glad to change the close 

 and pestilential atmosphere of Calebar for the 

 clear and salubrious air of Clarence Cove. 



