NOCTURNAL RAINS. 133 



procured what we wanted, and proceeded. 

 Slept at a cottage with tolerable comfort, 

 having excluded the musquitoes from the 

 inside of our toldos. 



Monday, 28th. Much inconvenienced by 

 the musquitoes ; obliged to sit all day in our 

 musquito dresses ; the air most oppressive ; 

 stopped at sunset on an island in the midst 

 of the river. Thunder and vivid lightning 

 prognosticated another storm. The rain 

 obliged us to prepare for sleeping on board, 

 which we attempted to do, wrapped up in 

 our musquito dresses. The first part of the 

 night was almost insufferable from the ex- 

 cessive heat; but after the rain began to 

 fall, the air was somewhat cooled, and we 

 got some little sleep, although much incom- 

 moded by the bogas forcing their way in 

 under the toldo, to avoid the rain, to which 

 we were obliged passively to submit. They 

 were, however, useful in baling out the 



