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some Indian corn and a few cocoa-nuts, — a very 

 acceptable present in our estimation. In the 

 course of the day we had heavy rain, with thunder 

 and lightning. Continuing on after dark, we 

 passed three towns, one on the left bank, the 

 others on the right bank of the river ; the names 

 of the two latter were Etoaka and Adowah ; after 

 which we stopped for the night. 



We again resumed our tedious journey at five 

 in the morning, which was then jfine, but soon 

 after we had heavy rain. At 8 a. m. we halted on 

 a sandbank, opposite a town named Amoorah, 

 from whence we could descry some lofty trees near 

 Eboe. On this sandbank we found thousands of 

 the same kind of birds that we saw the day before, 

 and several hundred eggs lay quite uncovered. 



A curious circumstance occurred on this day, 

 which may serve to illustrate the difficulty of 

 ascending the river in a canoe. About 5 p. m. 

 yesterday we were drifted several miles by the 

 current, and crossed from one side of the river 

 to the other. Straw-Hat, one of our Kroomen, 

 was tracking the boat along the bank, when he 

 slipped into the water, and struck his foot against 

 something hard, and immediately dived to find 

 out what it was, and, to our surprise, brought 



