presently took the hint, and inquired for the mouth of the river, which I
understood by him was above a day's march, and, by our estimation, we found
it about seven leagues further. I take this to be the great river marked by
our chart-makers at the northmost part of the coast of Mozambique, and
called there Quilloa.

Consulting thus with ourselves, we resolved to take the prince, and as many
of the prisoners as we could stow in our frigate, and go about by the bay
into the river; and that eight of us, with our arms, should march by land
to meet them on the river side; for the prince, carrying us to a rising
ground, had showed us the river very plain, a great way up the country, and
in one place it was not above six miles to it.

It was my lot to march by land, and be captain of the whole caravan. I had
eight of our men with me, and seven-and-thirty of our prisoners, without
any baggage, for all our luggage was yet on board. We drove the young bulls
with us; nothing was ever so tame, so willing to work, or carry anything.
The negroes would ride upon them four at a time, and they would go very
willingly. They would eat out of our hand, lick our feet, and were as
tractable as a dog.

We drove with us six or seven cows for food; but our negroes knew nothing
of curing the flesh by salting and drying it till we showed them the way,
and then they were mighty willing to do so as long as we had any salt to do
it with, and to carry salt a great way too, after we found we should have
no more.

It was an easy march to the river side for us that went by land, and we
came thither in a piece of a day, being, as above, no more than six English
miles; whereas it was no less than five days before they came to us by