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We Trust Ouk " TfiADE " With Strangers'. 
secretly taken tlieii- depai-ture. After endless trouble and a promise l<» 
follow their guidance, however great the difficulties to be overcome might 
be, we managed at last to raise the number of our cai-riers up to 50, and 
this of course necessitated our reducing the tightly-packed luggage l»y 
one-half, and sending for the remainder pprlia])s later on. 
')77. This want of hands also itrevcntcd us leaving behind in Torong- 
Yauwise one <»f our Geoi'getown creolcs lo snpervise the things left behind 
Avhich, as tlu^ folk in the place well kne\\", consisted for the most part of 
articles for trade and barter: however, trnsting witli every confidence to 
the honesty of these so-far uns(»])lnst icated ]n-imitive i>eople, we ))lac('(l 
ouj* pi operty in the cnstody of the old chief renuiining at Toroiig-Yauwise. 
in the tii iii convict ion that wc would fin<l all our things undisturbed wImmi 
we got back. Tor()ng-Yau\\ ise Avherc we had spent such happy and 
interesting days is situate in 4° IG' lat. N. and 60° IS' long. 
