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cries and ejaculations, whilst they keep up 

 a pantomime of bodily contortions, stamp- 

 ing, dancing, wriggling, and twisting in a 

 thousand ludicrous postures, unutterable and 

 inimitable, which they renew, with increased 

 zeal, and unbounded satisfaction to them- 

 selves, the moment they perceive they have 

 fixed the attention, or excited the laughter 

 of strangers. 



These champans hold from one thousand 

 to one thousand two hundred quintals ; 

 one of them lay at this time at the point 

 where we entered the Magdalena, taking in 

 a lading of Nicaragua wood to convey to 

 Santa Martha, thence to be exported for 

 the European market. 



Three leagues higher up the river we 

 reached the Cano de Solidad, by which we 

 soon arrived at the town of the same name, 

 where we landed, and I took up my abode 



