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Filled with joy and anxiously awaiting the break of day, we 
spent the night, and at 4 o’clock in the morning we struck our 
several miles; he also designates the course to be pursued with a 
boat on attempting the entrance into the river. Iam convinced 
that this navigator passed at the time of high tide, and regarded 
is a8 the usual depth of the stream, hence he failed to remark 
this circumstance. Had we prosecuted the restf our journey 
aeuracy. Even if we had succeeded in discovering the river, 
the sea, very rough at this point, would have exposed the boat 
10 great peril. 
the Opposite bank, and in spite of the perils from the crocodiles 
‘warming the river, to which our hunters were x , they 
‘emp in safety and speedily drove the elephant into the in- 
or, 
On the 14th of November we followed up the course of the 
»T On its right bank, observing on both sides of the river large 
of wood and thick trunks of trees similar to those seen 
Upon the sea coast, The banks gradually rose to greater height, 
bed ream grew narrower, but thus far no obstructions in the 
* of the river were met with; after a two hours march we 
all in with high waterfalls. Sand dunes constituting the left 
bank, and perpendicular masses of granite rock the night bank, 
wtpelled us to leave the shore and we only returned to it after 
search of 44 hours, he deep winding valleys which inter- 
ar Shee more wearisome than the earlier portion of it. 
: it impossible to advance any farther on this day, we re- 
~ ND SERIES, Vor. XXVII, No. 81.—MAY, 1859. 
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