716 EFFECTS OF FEVER. 



My fever became excessively severe in consequence of travel- 

 ing in the hot sun, and the long grass blocking up the narrow 

 path so as to exclude the air. The pulse beat with amazing 

 force, and felt as if thumping against the crown of the head. 

 The stomach and spleen swelled enormously, giving me, for the 

 first time, an appearance which I had been disposed to laugh at 

 among the Portuguese. At Interra we met Senhor x4.sevedo, a 

 man who is well known by all who ever visited Kilimane, and 

 who was presented with a gold chronometer watch by the Ad- 

 miralty for his attentions to English officers. He immediately 

 tendered his large sailing launch, which had a house in the stern. 

 This was greatly in my favor, for it anchored in the middle of 

 the stream, and gave me some rest from the musquitoes, which 

 in the whole of the delta are something frightful. Sailing corn- 

 vessel to cross the bar at spring tides, and be perfectly landlocked and bidden 

 among the trees. 



"The Maiiido, in 18° 52' S., 36° 12' E., is not mentioned in Horsburgh, nor 

 laid down in the Admiralty chart, but is, nevertheless, one of some importance, 

 and appears to be one of the principal stations for shipping slaves, as the boats 

 found two barracoons, about 20 miles up, bearing every indication of having been 

 very recently occupied, and which had good presumptive evidence that the ' Cau- 

 raigo,' a brig under American colors, had embarked a cargo from thence but a 

 6hort time before. The river is fronted by a portion of the Elephant Shoals, at 

 the distance of three or four miles outside. The eastern bank is formed by level 

 6ea-cliffs (as seen from the ship it has that appearance), high for this part of the 

 coast, and conspicuous. The western side is composed of thick trees, and termi- 

 nates in dead wood, from which we called it ' Dead-wood Point.' After crossing 

 the bar it branches off in a W. and N.W. direction, the latter being the principal 

 arm, up which the boats went some 30 miles, or about 10 beyond the barracoon. 

 Fresh water can be obtained almost immediately inside the entrance, as the stream 

 runs down very rapidly with the ebb tide. The least water crossing the bar (low- 

 water — springs) was l£ fathom, one cast only therefrom from 2 to 5 fathoms, 

 another 7 fathoms nearly the whole way up. 



"The Catrina, latitude 18° 50' south, longitude 36° 24' east. The exter- 

 nal appearance of this river is precisely similar to that of the Maiudo, so 

 much so that it is difficult to distinguish them by any feature of the land. 

 The longitude is the best guide, or, in the absence of observation, perhaps 

 the angles contained by the extremes of land will be serviceable. Thus, at 

 nine miles off the Maiudo the angle contained by the above was seven points, 

 the bearing being N.E. "W. of N.W. (?) ; while off the Catrina, at the same 

 distance from shore (about nine miles), the angle was only 3^- to 4 points, be- 

 ing N. to N.W. As we did not send the boats up this river, no information 

 was obtained." 



