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which the current made it difficult for us to 

 reach. A native hailed our interpreter, and told 

 him, that if we would send some rum, cloth, and 

 powder for Ju-ju, Ju-ju would make fair wind ! 

 This, as may be supposed, we declined doing ; 

 and our interpreter pointing to our swivels, we 

 told him those were our Ju-jus. The fellow 

 did not like the allusion, and walked away. In 

 the evening we anchored, about seven, on a 

 sandbank. 



During the night a very heavy dew fell, and 

 the morning of the 19th was foggy. I awoke 

 with a most excruciating pain in my limbs and 

 side, owing to lying in my wet clothes upon un- 

 even boxes. Jowdie was despatched for some 

 bamboo to make a kind of frame to support the 

 bed. Mr. Lander was much the same, but 

 stronger ; and Mr. Dean, who accompanied us 

 to take charge of the Alburkah, was now very ill. 

 The river in some places is from twelve to fif- 

 teen hundred yards wide, the banks on each side 

 being covered with verdure and the richest foli- 

 age. The reaches of the river are ten or twelve 

 miles long, while here and there are to be seen 

 towns, with their brown-topped huts ; some of 

 the natives were dressed in cottons and silks of 



