MONPOX. 107 



In the evening the tailor brought home the 

 leathern dresses we had ordered, conceiving 

 them well adapted to wear over our holland 

 dresses, to keep off the musquitoes, which 

 became more numerous at a short distance 

 from this place, being beyond the influence 

 of the sea-breeze, the ceasing of which with- 

 in a day and a half's journey of Monpox 

 leaves the heat of that spot equal perhaps to 

 that of any part of the world. The leather, 

 however, procured at this place proved too 

 thin, and too liable to crack, for the purpose. 

 I would recommend all travellers under the 

 necessity of going up these rivers in canoes, 

 to provide themselves with dresses of the 

 lightest and most pliable leather to be had in 

 Europe. This tailor demanded a third more 

 than he gladly accepted afterwards, which 

 leads me to caution every one who may have 

 to employ native mechanics, to make his 

 agreement in the first instance. 



