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a great many of his bushmen, who made a “ bad bob” 
with him, for having taken the white men away without 
letting him see them. They had an angry “palaver,” 
which, however, was “set” amicably by the distribu- 
tion of sundry bottles of rum and a few yards of cloth. 
May Wth . — Some slight cases of fever made us 
anxious to return to om- healthy Bay of Amboises. 
Weighed at daylight, and having previously surveyed 
the channel in the real I’iver, we continued it over the 
flats in the estuary, until we had connected it with 
Captain Vidal’s excellent survey. Mr. Lilley, who was 
coming away at the same time with a palm-oil ship 
and a schooner, kindly anchored them wherever we 
wished, to serve as stations for our operations. 
The swell, or tumultuous heaving of the water, is 
here sometimes very great. The day the ‘Soudan’ 
passed out, over the shallows, although there was scarce 
a breath of wind stirring, the long roUing swell was 
greater than we have almost any where else seen ; and 
Nako, the pilot, said, if ships are suddenly becalmed 
here, they are in great danger, unless well provided 
with anchors and cables. 
May — We anchored in the Bay of Amboises, 
near the island Mbndoleh. Pound the ‘ Soudan’ lying 
here all well; Mr, Anderson, second master, had re- 
covered, under the refreshing influence of the sea- 
breeze and cool land-wind, which are hardly ever 
failing in this beautiful bay ; our few cases of fever 
rapidly gave way to their bracing effect. 
