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run down his back. This path was soon made a high- 

 way for slaving parties by Captain Raposo, the Com- 

 mandant. The journey nearly killed our two active, 

 young friends; and what the slaves must have since 

 suffered on it no one can conceive; but slaving probably 

 can never be conducted without enormous suffering and 

 loss of life. 



Mankokwe now sent a message to say that he wished 

 us to stop at his village on our way down. He came on 

 board on our arrival there with a handsome present, and 

 said that his young people had dissuaded him from visit- 

 ing us before ; but now he was. determined to see what 

 every one else was seeing. A bald square-headed man, 

 who had been his Prime Minister when we came up, was 

 now out of office, and another old man, who had taken his 

 place, accompanied the chief. In passing the Elephant 

 Marsh, we saw nine large herds of elephants ; they 

 sometimes formed a line two miles long. 



On the 2nd of November we anchored off Shamoara, 

 and sent the boat to Senna for biscuit and other pro- 

 visions. Senhor Ferrao, with his wonted generosity, 

 gave us a present of a bullock, which he sent io us in a 

 canoe. Wishing to know if a second bullock would be 

 acceptable to us, he consulted his Portuguese and English 

 dictionary, and asked the sailor in charge if he would 

 take another ; but Jack, mistaking the Portuguese pronun- 

 ciation of the letter h, replied, " Oh no, sir, thank you, I 

 don't want an otter in the boat, they are such terrible 

 biters ! " 



We had to ground the vessel on a shallow sandbank 

 every night ; she leaked so fast, that in deep water she 

 would have sunk, and the pump had to be worked all day 

 to keep her afloat. Heavy rains fell daily, producing the 

 usual injurious effects in the cabin ; and, unable to wait 

 any longer for our associates, who had gone overland from 



