HEAVY SURE. 
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Mr. Bannerman’s house, during our visit, was beset 
with people offering various articles for sale ; among 
these were skins of the beautiful Diana monkey, and 
others with long glossy black hair, probably the Sooty 
Mangabey, {Cercocebus fuligmosus). Provisions were 
plentiful, and at a reasonable price. We were also 
fortunate in meeting with some nice trinkets of native 
manufacture, worked in the purest gold, and display- 
ing considerable taste. After partaking of the good 
things of our kind host’s table, which, though cooked in 
native fashion, afforded proofs of an advancement in 
civilization, which would have delighted the philan- 
throphic gastro-regenerator, M. Soyer, we em- 
barked. At this season the surf sets in very violently 
during the afternoon ; and notwithstanding we were 
provided with one of Mr. Bannerman’s largest canoes, 
containing forty pull-a-boys, we experienced much 
difficulty and no little danger before we got through the 
nearest line of breakers. In our first essay the huge 
canoe was swamped, on which the crew jumped out, 
and swam by the side until we reached the shore 
again, when, after baling out the water, and chanting 
another dirge to the presiding deities of the element, 
we made a second and more successful attempt. 
After the exercise we had on shore, the sitting in our 
wet clothes, kept us cold and shivering, while our pull- 
a-boys, who had no other covering than nature be- 
stowed, seemed to rejoice in a soaking, and kept up a 
loud chorus, of which the usual prevailing subject was 
