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where I formerly waited for a passage. We waited here 
about an hour for Isaaco, who had gone to Segosee Korro 
to inform Mansongof our passing. When Isaaco returned , 
he made a sort of shade over our canoe with four sticks 
and a couple of cloaks ; and in the evening I found my- 
self more collected and less feverish. At sun-set we rowed 
towards the north bank, where there are some flat rocks, 
on which passengers by water often sleep. We found the 
place occupied by a number of people. I counted between 
thirty and forty fires ; we therefore passed on a little to 
the Eastwards, and slept on a sand bank covered with 
September 27th. — At day-break we again proceeded, 
^nd in stretching over to gain the middle of the river, we 
passed a Somoni fishing village on an island ; the huts 
occupied the whole of the dry ground, and it appeared^ 
even when close to it, like a floating village. We reached 
Sansanding at ten o'clock. Such crowds of people came to 
the shore to see us, that we could not land our baggage till 
the people were beaten away with sticks, by Koontie Ma- 
madie's orders, on whose premises we were accommodated 
with a large hut for sitting in, having another hut opening 
into it, in which we deposited our baggage. 
October 2d. — ^Marshall and W. Garland (privates) died; 
one of the fever, the other of the dysentery. During the 
