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entertainment or information, sufficient may at least be 
gleaned from them to furnish matter for serious reflection ; 
but to those who have been placed in situations of danger 
where human ingenuity availed them not, and where human 
foresight was baffled, I feel persuaded that these remarks 
arc unnecessary. 
It was my first care to call for our friend, and to express 
to him, as well as I could, how much we stood indebted to 
him, at the same time that I made him a suitable present ; 
but to the chiefs of the tribes, I positively refused all gifts, 
notwithstanding their earnest solicitations. We next pre- 
pared to examine the new river, and turning the boat’s 
head towards it, endeavoured to pull up the stream. Our 
larboard oars touched the right bank, and the current was 
too strong for us to conquer it with a pair only ; we were, 
therefore, obliged to put a second upon her, a movement 
that excited the astonishment and admiration of the natives. 
One old woman seemed in absolute extacy, to whom M'Leay 
threw an old tin kettle, in recompense for the amusement 
she afforded us. 
As soon as we got above the entrance of the new river, 
we found easier pulling, and proceeded up it for some miles, 
accompanied by the once more noisy multitude. The river 
preserved a breadth of one hundred yards, and a depth 
of rather more than twelve feet. Its banks were 
sloping and grassy, and were overhung by trees of magnifi- 
cent size. Indeed, its appearance was so different from the 
water-worn banks of the sister stream, that the men ex- 
