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My fever became excessively severe, in consequence of 

 travelling 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 Por- 

 tuguese. At Interra we met Senhor Asevedo, a man who 

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

 was presented with a gold chronometer watch by the 

 Admiralty, 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 favour, for 

 it anchored in the middle of the stream, and gave me 

 some rest from the mosquitoes, which in the whole of the 

 delta are something frightful. Sailing comfortably in 

 this commodious launch along the river of Kiliniane, we 

 reached that village (lat. iy° 53' 8" S., long. 36 40' E.) on 

 the 20th of May, 1856, which wanted only a few days of 

 being four years since I started from Cape Town. Here 



which had good presumptive evidence that the l Cauraigo,' a brig 

 under American colours, had embarked a cargo from thence but a 

 short time before. This 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 sea 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 terminates in dead wood, 

 from which we call 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 1^ fathom, 

 one cast only therefrom from 2 to 5 fathoms, another 7 fathoms nearly 

 the whole way up. 



"The Catrina, lat. 18 50' S., long. 36 24' E. The external 

 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 observa- 

 tion, 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. (?)j 

 whilst off the Catrina, at the same distance from shore (about nine 

 miles), the angle was only 3 J to 4 points, being N. to N.W. As we 

 did not send the boats up this river, no information was obtained." 



