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returned to the village, with pagnes round their waists and 
calabashes on their heads. There were only four canoes 
for conveying between two hundred and fifty and three 
hundred persons, besides luggage. We were not all landed 
on the right bank until near eleven o'clock. The excessive 
heat had brought on me a severe head-ache accompanied with 
fever. We proceeded onwards to the S. E. over good land, 
leaving behind us a few merchants who had not yet crossed 
the river. I was so ill that I experienced great difficulty in 
walking. The heat was intense, and I opened my umbrella 
to shelter me from the scorching rays of the sun ; but some 
of my travelling companions advised me to shut it on ap- 
proaching the villages, lest, as they said, it should excite the 
cupidity of the Kafirs (infidels). We proceeded eastward. 
The road was flooded, and in several places the water was 
ancle- deep. We passed Sambarala, a village situated on 
the bank of the river and surrounded by nedes and ces. 
We next pursued our course over a sandy soil, clothed with 
beautiful vegetation, among which I observed tamarind-trees. 
About three o'clock we arrived at Counancodo, where I saw 
some fine orange-trees. We had travelled nine miles in the 
course of the day. 
I told Lamfia that I wished to procure a few tamarinds, 
as 1 was very feverish. He immediately sent his brother to 
gather some in the neighbouring wood.; but the brother, 
not understanding what I meant, brought the leaves in- 
stead of the fruit. We could procure no milk, for the 
saracolets had gone before us and bought all that the 
village afforded. My fever had continued without inter- 
mission the whole of the way. For a little powder 1 
bought a fowl, in order to recruit my strength. Our caravan 
consisted of sixty or eighty men, some carrying loads, 
others leading asses, and very few walking free from all 
encumbrance. One of our companions had a slave, whom 
