46 RABBAH CANOES. 



we got under weigh at 10. 25 a. m. Very heavy 

 rain had fallen during the greater part of the 

 night. At 11 A. M. our course was about west- 

 north-west. The mountains we had seen the day 

 before were still observed, assuming the same di- 

 rection, to the northward. A beautiful hill was 

 named Barrow's Mount ; and the others, Graham's 

 Mountains. Thermometer, 86". 



A large Rabbah canoe, upwards of sixty feet 

 long, passed us : a number of the natives were 

 seated on the roof of a sort of hut constructed 

 in the canoe, which appeared heavily laden and 

 on its way to Egga market. A little below, 

 we passed a small promontory entirely covered 

 with palm-trees, from which circumstance we be- 

 stowed upon it the name of Palm-tree Point. 

 Passed two towns, and a number of huts covered 

 with ivy, lying on the left side of the river. An- 

 other large Rabbah canoe afterwards passed us, 

 containing two houses similar to the former : — it 

 was filled up with calabashes, mats, &c. and 

 could not be much less than seventy feet long. 



At 12, 30, we passed a town on the left bank, 

 situate at the back part of an island, on the 

 shore of a very pretty bay. We also passed a 

 small village built on a point of land on the 



