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Found two more of the asses unable to carry their loads. 
Hired people to carry on the loads, and a boy to drive the 
asses. Past the ruins of another town at half past twelve, 
where I found two of the sick, who had laid themselves 
down under a tree, and refused to rise, (they were after- 
wards stripped by the Negroes, and came naked to our 
tents next morning.) Shortly after this, came to an ass 
lying on the road unable to proceed with its load. Put 
part of the load on my horse, which was already heavily 
loaded. Took a knapsack on my back. The soldier car- 
ried the remainder and drove the ass before him. 
We arrived on the banks of the Ba Woolima at half past 
one o'clock. This river is but narrow, not being more 
than fifty or sixty feet over ; but was so swelled with the 
rains as to be twenty feet deep at the place where we pro- 
posed to cross it. Our first attempt was to fell a tree close 
to the river, that by its fall would reach across the stream 
and form a bridge : but after cutting down four, they all 
fell in such a manner as to be of no use ; for though the 
tops of one reached the rocks on the farther shore when it 
fell, yet the violence of the current swept it away. In this 
manner we fatigued ourselves till sun-set,^ when we gave 
up the attempt. 
