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westerly. About seven o'clock we brought to at Cooma, 
where we passed the night. The river and its banks still 
presented the same uniformity of aspect. 
On the 6th of April, at five in the morning, we got under 
way, and stood towards the east. The course of the river 
was in that direction, but with a number of small sinuosities 
on the northern and southern sides. About three in the 
afternoon we passed Lelel, a large village, containing from 
five to six hundred inhabitants, and situated on the left bank. 
A little before it reaches this village the river elbows round 
to the north for a mile and a half, and then turns back to the 
east. At half past four in the evening we passed Garfola, 
a village without a wall, and very much resembling the 
former. I observed around it multitudes of Barbary ducks 
and other aquatic birds. The banks in the neighbourhood 
of this village are somewhat elevated. Some baobabs, bom- 
baces, tamarinds, somps, mimosas, and naucleas, adorn the 
environs. The river may be here about half a mile broad. 
About seven o'clock we anchored at Doboo, where we passed 
the night. 
On the 7th of April we waited to give time to the heavy 
boats, which we had left astern, to come up, and, about eight 
in the morning, stood towards the N. E. with a gentle breeze, 
favourable for that course. However, as it soon began to 
blow fresh, we anchored, about nine o'clock, at Filinsa, a 
village containing five hundred inhabitants. A great number 
of canoes were under repair in the port. I saw the car- 
penters at work : the only tool they used was a small 
hatchet, in the form of an adze, with which they shaped out, 
awkwardly enough, little pieces of plank, the greater part of 
which appeared to be in a state of decay. They were indeed 
fragments of old canoes which were thus used for repairs. 
When there was a hole in the side of a canoe, these carpen- 
ters clapped a bit of plank upon it, and fastened it, or, as 
it were, stitched it on with rope, made of the bark of trees. 
