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desist. Her husband used various incantations and vocife 
rations to drivo away tho rain, but down it poured inces- 
santly, and on our Amazon wont in tho very lightest 
marching-order, and at a paco that few of tho men could 
keep up with. Being on ox-back, 1 kept pretty close to 
our leader, and asked her why sho did not elotho horsolf 
during tho rain, and learned that it is not considered proper 
for a chief to appear effeminate. Ho or she must always 
wear tho appearance of robust youth and bear vicissitude* 
without wincing. My men, in admiration of her podostrian 
powers, every now ar,<l then remarked, “Manonko is a 
soldier;” and, thoroughly wot and cold, we wero all glad 
when she proposed a halt to proparo our night’s lodging 
on the banks of a stream. 
Next day wo passed through a piece of forest so dense that 
no one could have penetrated it without an axe. It was 
flooded, not by tho river, but by the heavy rains which 
poured down overy day and kept those who had clothing 
constantly wet. I observed in this piece of forest a very 
strong smell of sulphuretted hydrogen. This I had observod 
repeatedly in other parts beforo. I had attacks of fovor 
of tho intermittent typo again and again, in consequence 
of repeated drenchings in these unhealthy spots. 
On the 11th and 12th we wore detained by incessant 
rains, and so heavy I never saw the like in tho south. I 
had a little tapioca and a small quantity of Libonta moal, 
which 1 still reserved for worse times. Tho pationco of 
my men under hunger was admirable ; tho actual want of 
the present is never so painful as tho thought of getting 
nothing in tho future. Wo thought the people of some 
large hamlets very niggardly and very independent of their 
chiefs, for they gave us and Manonko nothing, though they 
had largo fields of maize in an eatable state around them. 
When sho went and kindly bogged some for mo, they gave 
her five cars only. Thoy wero subjects of her uncle, and, 
had thoy boon Makololo, would havo been lavish in thoii 
grifte to the niece of their chief. 1 suspected that thoj 
