JOBSON's V0YAG5:. 
(Jonkakonda of Park). Here he met two of 
Thompson's men, who gave him flattering hopes 
of the trade higher up the river, but advised him 
to lose no time, as it would quickly become too 
shallow to allow him to navigate. Having reach- 
ed Oranto, where Thompson had established his 
factory, he was soon visited by the king, Summa 
Tumba, a blind man, subject to the sovereign of 
Cantore. After mutual compliments, " he made 
" haste to drown his wits in the aquavitae we 
** brought him." The people also came in great 
numbers, " some to sell, all to begge." Presents, 
accompanied with expressions of kindness, were 
now received from several of the neighbouring 
chiefs. The accounts which they heard filled 
" them with golden hopes but it was soon 
found that they had committed a capital error in 
not bringing a larger provision of salt. This was 
always the first commodity asked for ; nor was 
any thing else held in nearly equal estimation. 
After staying some days at Oranto, Jobson set 
sail on the 1st of January 1621. The country 
now became more mountainous and barren, and 
the wild animals multiplied. They discovered, 
in particular, " a world of sea horses, whose paths 
" as they came on shore to feed, were beaten with 
" tracks as large as London highway." On the 
12th, they came to the falls of Barraconda, where 
ridges of rocks, barring the river, prevent the far. 
