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duce me to stay a day, he sent me a small bul- 

 lock and eighty yams. 



At 2. 45 p. M. we got mider weigh. The 

 weather was so thick and hazy, that we could 

 not see the distance of a ship's length before us. 

 In the evening we ran into shoal water : the peo- 

 ple carried out the anchors, and endeavoured to 

 get the vessel off without effect, and we were 

 obliged to remain aground for the night. 



The next morning at daylight, all hands were 

 engaged in endeavouring to get the vessel afloat. 

 The river in this part begins to widen consi- 

 derably : it is, however, very shallow, and we 

 ought to have been up three months ago. The 

 weather continued very foggy, and the air, from 

 the decomposition of animal and vegetable mat- 

 ter left on the banks by the fall of the river, was 

 extremely pernicious and unhealthy. 



A very large canoe from Iddah, with fifty 

 hands, now came alongside. All the people had 

 a knife, which they wore in a case attached to 

 the left side. I made a present to the head- 

 man, and requested him to allow his men to go 

 overboard to the vessel's side, and heave her 

 into deeper water. The seasonable aid of these 

 men, together with the united exertions of the 



