372 TOWN OF OHDONAH. 



quite startled at the report they made. I then 

 charged it with powder ; and when the natives 

 heard the report, they set up a loud shout, say- 

 ing '' the percussion cap made gun speak too 

 much." At this place we encountered a very 

 strong current. Having passed several towns 

 on the right bank of the river, we halted, as 

 usual, on a sandbank for the night, which was 

 showery. 



The next day we halted near a town named 

 Ohdonah, on a sandbank ; the name of whose 

 king was Egambia. After we had proceeded 

 several miles this morning, we discovered that 

 a mulatto boy had been left behind. The 

 canoe was despatched in search of him, and in 

 the mean time I loaded my fowling-piece, and 

 shot a few sand-larks. When the canoe returned, 

 we found the boy had been asleep on the bank, 

 and had not heard our morning gun, — a signal 

 we invariably adopted every morning to awake 

 the people who slept ashore. 



We passed some high land on this day, the 

 banks being thirty feet high, the current strong. 

 The width of the river w^s about three quarters 

 of a mile ; and the weather was rainy and foggy 

 as we stopped near a town named Ohdoney, 



