366 HIPPOPOTAMI. 



Osseeaber : he was desired to have wood ready 

 cut in a month's time. His town consists of 

 about fifty huts. — At ten the morning was fine, 

 but excessively hot. Passed a large sandbank on 

 our right, the reach of the river being nearly three 

 miles long. At S p. m. another town was passed, 

 named after the last from some of the natives 

 having settled there. In the afternoon we had 

 heavy showers of rain, and we passed another 

 town and village. The river at this part is about 

 three quarters of a mile wide. In the evening 

 we saw the heads of two hippopotami for the 

 first time, and at eight we stopped at a sandbank 

 for the night. 



The following morning, at three, we proceed- 

 ed until eight o'clock, when we halted on a 

 sandbank, to repair the house over the boat. 

 Several boxes of goods were taken out of the 

 boats to make room, and several articles com- 

 pletely wet for the purpose of being dried. The 

 wet articles, as cottons, looking-glasses, and 

 clothes, were spread upon the sandbank ; and 

 muskets, pistols, cutlasses, &c. were strewed all 

 around. We had been on the sandbank about 

 half an hour, in the full heat of the sun ; some of 

 the people were employed washing, some cooking, 



