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TEAVELS IN CENTEAL AFEICA. 
party. At 2.45 passed across an open channel^ with* a strong cur- 
rent flowing N.N.W. Tliis stream is called Haugau. Arrived at 
tlie island : as so described by tlie negroes^ I found it to be a 
tongue of land stretching into the lagoon^ which could have been 
approached from the mainland. Our men who had started with 
the baggage were here. Tents were soon up^ and we were scarcely 
under canvas when a storm burst. 
September hth . — Lading seventeen canoes with nearly the whole 
of the baggage,, and picking some of the best of our men to form 
a guards they prepared to cross the lagoon^ Mussaad paying the 
boatmen each a heavy copper bracelet, twenty genito beads (much 
esteemed by this tribe j it is a large bead, white ground, and spotted 
with divers colours), also a hand-full of ordinary dull white beads. 
Our men were to await us on the opposite shore, the forest of which 
was just visible on the south-west horizon, the boatmen promising 
to return for the rest of us at an early hour to-morrow. I had 
leisure now to observe the encampment : formerly a kraal had been 
here, but, with the exception of several mounds of earth raised above 
the level of the low marshy ground for the cattle to lie on, and the 
remains of a fence overgrown with luxuriant creepers, no other 
indication of its ever having been occupied was traceable. My 
poor wife is down with ague. 
September Qith . — At 6.30 a.m. heard two guns in the direction of 
Jemeed (the hamlet we had left), and soon after seven a.m. some 
of our men from the Rohl, with forty porters from thence, came 
marching in with colours flying : right welcome were they. Five 
of their party (some of whom were invalided) remained at the Rohl 
with baggage ; twenty-one, the number who had arrived, had passed 
