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be met with throughout all the low and marfhy places in chap. 

 the foreft, is a kind of roots called matakee^ and more ^ _ 

 vulgarly trumpets, on account of the form, refembling 

 the windings of that inftrument, which rife above 

 ground like nebees, three or four feet high, continuing 

 thus to an almoft endlefs length, and fo thick that, like 

 our brambles, no dog can get through them ; over thefe 

 matakees it is extremely difficult to walk, as they every 

 moment catch hold of the feet, and frequently trip up 

 the body, unlefs at every footftep care is taken to ftep 

 clear over them, which for Ihort-limbed men is an ab-^ 

 folute impoflibility. With this inconvenience we were 

 troubled throughout the whole march; but we had no 

 opportunity of falling in with any kind of good roots, ve- 

 getables, or fruits for food, except a few maripas^ which 

 are a fpecies of nuts that grow on a tall palm-tree, and are 

 very much like the aweyza that I have already defer ibed, 

 only larger, and lefs of an orange colour, the ftone and 

 kernel being exa6lly the fame. 



We marched again with better weather, and arrived 

 before noon at Jerufalem, near the mouth of Cormoetibo 

 Creek, where I had formerly halted during my cruifc. 

 Here Colonel Fourgeoud, with his drooping foldiers, was 

 arrived juft before us ; and here we made our appear- 

 ance, in fuch a fhocking lituation as will fcarcely admit 

 of defcription. It is fufficient to fay, that the whole 

 Httle army was exhaufted by famine and fatigue, a very 

 Imall number excepted ; while feveral, unable to walk at 



all. 



