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heavy article, I caused two to be lashed together, which answered 
the purpose extremely well. The portmanteaus, &c. were first 
taken over; and I, laying myself flat on my face, was next ferried 
across by the two messengers, who swam behind, and dexterously 
propelled it forward with their hands. The horses and asses were 
not quite so fortunate ; the current being strong and rapid, they 
were borne by it nearly a quarter of a mile from the place at which 
they entered the water. Every thing being at length safely landed 
on the opposite side, at 11 P. M. left the banks of the river, and 
pursuing a north-east course till sunset, pitched our tent on a rising 
ground near a small stream. The asses have been again trouble- 
some the whole of the way. 
12tli. — Leaving at half-past six in the morning, pitched our 
tent outside a small walled town called Accoran, the first I had 
seen since leaving Nammaleek, at two in the afternoon. The west 
end of the town is defended by an immense naked rock, and the 
other parts by a mud wall and a deep ditch. It is inhabited by 
Bowchee people, miserably poor, who could not sell us even a single 
goat or fowl. A thunder-storm came on this afternoon, with its 
usual violence, accompanied with vivid lightning and floods of rain, 
which continued the whole of the night. 
13th.— Started at eight in the morning, and reached Cowroo at 
three in the afternoon. The country traversed differed but little 
from that previously mentioned. The palm and cocoa-nut trees, 
however, which had been so plentiful since leaving Cuttup, sud- 
denly disappeared, and I saw no more of them till our arrival near 
the sea-coast in Yariba. Crossed several streams in the day, and 
numerous steep and craggy but low mountains lay on our left and 
right, on the very summits of which small villages are built; the 
roads leading to them must be extremely dangerous. Remained 
here three days, in order to refresh my men and beasts. The chief 
is a fine looking man, and was very neatly dressed in a plain white 
