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CHAPTER V. 
August 6th. — Having hired two more ass drivers at one 
bar and their victuals per day, we left Koolihori early in 
the morning, and travelled with considerable dispatch till 
three o'clock ; at which time we reached Ganifarra, a small 
beggarly village. In the course of this march L. Cahill 
and J. Bird, two of the soldiers, and William Cox, one 
of the seamen, fell behind, and laid down. As soon as the 
front of the coffle had reached Ganifarra, it came on a very 
heavy rain. Being in the rear I was completely drenched ; 
and two of the asses carrying four trunks, in which were 
the gun stocks, pistols, looking glasses, &c. fell down in a 
stream of water near the town, and all the contents were 
completely wet. I could purchase nothing here, not so 
much as a fowl. Served out a short allowance of rice, 
being very short of that article. 
August 7th. — During the night, some person had stolen 
one of our best asses ; and as the load must be left if we 
could not recover it, Isaaco's people having traced the 
foot marks to a considerable distance, agreed to go in 
search of it. Isaaco gave them the strictest orders^ if tliey 
