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as the Caquingue country, where I should readily obtain 
men for the Bilie. 
My fever had yielded to the tremendous doses of 
quinine I had taken ; but, completely wetted through 
for three whole days, I began to feel the first symptoms 
of that rheumatism which threatened more than once to 
bring my journey to a sudden close. The night was 
tempestuous, and the following day continued very wet. 
The chief was as good as his word, and put in an 
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appearance early next morning with the carriers ; but 
I had resolved to give myself some hours’ rest, and 
therefore dismissed them till the following day. I 
learned from the chief that my companions had passed 
through his place on the previous eve, coming from the 
south. 
The chief, Palanca, from the Sambo was carefully 
watched, but was otherwise free. The day before I 
had despatched a message to my former host of the 
Dumbo, informing him that the head of his friend 
should answer for the loads that had been left behind 
