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remindod mo strongly of the paintings of that nation in 
tho British Mascara. 
Wo had now rain every day, and tho sky seldom pre- 
sented that cloudless aspect and clear bluo so common in 
the dry lands of tho south. Tho heavens are often over- 
east by largo white motionless masses, which stand for 
hours in tho same position; and tho intorvoning spaces are 
filled with a milk-and-water-looking haze. Notwithstnnd- 
In g these unfavorable circumstances, I obtained good od- 
servations for tho longitudo of this important point on both 
Bides of tho Quango, and found tho rivor running in 9° 5(7 S. 
•at., 18° 33' E. long. 
On proceeding to our former station near Sansawo’s 
villago, ho ran to moot us with wonderful urbanity, asking 
if wo had seen Moono Put, king of tho whito men, (or Por- 
tuguese,) and added, on parting, that ho would como to 
receive his duos in tho evoning. I replied that, as ho had 
treated us so scurvily, oven forbidding his people to sell us 
any food, if ho did not bring us a fowl and somo eggs as 
part of his duty as a chief, ho should receivo no prosont 
from mo. When ho came, it was in tho usual Londa way 
°f showing tho exalted position he occupies, mountod on 
tho shoulders of his spokesman, as schoolboys somotimes 
do in England, and as was represented to havo been the 
caso in tho southern islands when Captain Cook visited 
thorn. My companions, amusod at his idea of dignity, 
grooted him with a hearty laugh. Ho visited tho native 
traders first, and then came to me with two cocks as a 
prosent. I spoko to him about tho impolicy of treatment 
wo had received at his hands, and quoted tho example of 
the Bangalas, who had boon conquorcd by tho Portuguese 
f°r thoir extortionato domands of paymont for firewood, 
grass, water, &o., and concluded by denying his right to 
any payment for simply passing through uncultivated land. 
T ° all this ho agreed ; and thon I gave him, as a tokon ol 
friendship, a pannikin of coarse powder, two iron BDOons, 
and two yards of coarse printed calico Ho lookod rather 
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