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evening we landed at a small village, called 

 Pinon, where we engaged two bogas in the 

 room of the one we had lost ; but we after- 

 wards took only one of them ; and before 

 paying him, requested the patron to inform 

 us of the different stages we were to make, 

 so as to be at Honda in fifteen days. As he 

 enumerated them we wrote them down, and 

 on summing up found they formed twenty- 

 seven resting-places instead of the fifteen 

 agreed on ; as we could not persuade him 

 to shorten the time, and as he seemed to 

 be a perfect rascal, who would most likely 

 leave us at a town to which he was carrying 

 some goods for sale, we determined to pro- 

 ceed no farther with him. 



April 17. At six o'clock embarked, and 

 as soon as we had pushed off from the shore, 

 obliged the patron to bear up and run down 

 the river to Monpox, where we arrived 

 about sunset, and immediately put a guard 



