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stream was entirely against them ; they could not 
sail in the night for fear of rocks ; nor could they, 
in the heat of the day, undertake the labour of 
dragging forward the boat. Their navigation was 
therefore confined to two or three hours in the 
morning and evening. The shallows and sand- 
banks became frequent. On the 14th, they were 
forced to enter the river naked, " very fearful of 
" the crocodiles," and drag the boat, " heaving and 
* l shoving" over the sand, till they came into deep- 
er water. On the &lst, passing over a high moun- 
tain, they sent a mission to the top, but nothing 
could be perceived except " deserts replenished 
" with terrible wild beasts, whose roaring we heard 
" every night." Whenever a crocodile appeared, 
of which many were seen thirty feet long, the ne- 
groes were seized with the utmost trepidation. 
They avoided the present party, however, owing, 
as our author conjectures, to their " noise and mul- 
" titude." On the 22d, as Jobson was walking a- 
iong the bank, he saw ' 6 sixteen great elephants 
li hard by him," and who had been concealed till 
that moment by the high sedge. He discharged 
his piece, which missed fire ; but the report made 
them run off full speed to the mountains. Fre- 
quently, also, " he might see twenty crocodiles, one 
¥ by another ; and in the night, specially towards 
¥ break of day, they would call one to another, 
* 6 much resembling the sound of a deep well, and 
