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Lamina, the guide, who had given them to Mr. 
Dochard to keep for him, and who would no 
doubt demand them at Sego, it became abso- 
lutely necessary that they should be replaced. 
To effect this, Mr. Dochard despatched one 
of his men, accompanied by one of Lamina's, 
back to me, giving, as I before said, this account 
of all that had taken place since his leaving 
Samba Contaye up to the 7th of September. 
In that short march he experienced all the 
difficulties which the state of the country at 
that time of the year, and the disposition of the 
natives, could possibly throw in his way to im- 
pede his progress. He appeared, however, thus 
far to have surmounted them all, and to have 
been going on as well as might be expected. 
The men who came from him had taken more 
time to perform this journey than would have 
been necessary had they both been swimmers. 
This was not the case, his own man did not 
swim at all, and the other could do so but bad- 
ly. To obviate, therefore, a similar delay in 
his receiving the articles he required, I selected 
a man to replace the former, and having made a 
small parcel of the dollars, together with some 
amber and beads, secured well with tarpaulin, 
and provided the men with means of subsist- 
ence till they could overtake Mr. Dochard, 
I despatched them on the 21st of September. 
