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this kind, we fired several shots, and, with a large 
accordion, upon which I played the rest of the night, I 
frightened the people to such a degree, that they 
thought every moment we were about to ransack 
the town. 
Thursday, Keeping along the north-eastern border of 
December 9th. ^ swam p j through a fine country where 
the tamarind and monkey-bread tree were often inter- 
laced, as I have repeatedly observed to be the case with 
these species of trees, we reached, after a march of 
about three miles, the town of Gesma, which is girt and 
defended by the swamp on the south and east sides, 
the wail being distinguished by the irregularity of its 
pinnacles, if pinnacles they may be called, as repre- 
sented in the accompanying woodcut. The inhabi- 
