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crossing it without canoes, of which there were 
rone at the place, would have been madness 5 he 
was therefore, however reluctantly, obliged to 
return to a small town called Jamoonia, about 
a mile from the river. 
Here he remained, in consequence of the con- 
tinuance of rain and the still swollen state of the 
river, until the 25th, during which time he, to- 
gether with some of his men, had a severe attack 
of fever, but on that day were sufficiently re- 
covered to attempt crossing the stream, then re- 
duced to nine feet water, and in which they suc- 
ceeded, by felling a large tree which stood on 
the bank, and when down reached across, form- 
ing a passage sufficiently solid to admit of the 
baggage being carried over on the men's heads : 
the animals swam across with much difficulty, 
owing to the rapidity of the stream. The re- 
mainder of that day's journey was rendered ex- 
tremely difficult and tedious, by the marshy 
nature of the ground over which their path 
lay. They halted for the night at a walled 
town called Dhiamu, having passed several small 
villages during the day. On leaving this place 
they had another considerable stream to cross ; 
it was much wider than the former but not so 
deep, having only from three to five feet water, 
with a rough stony bottom. The path on the 
other side was good and solid : in the vicinity of 
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