farther--having been about twelve days in this last part of the river--by
lightening the boats and taking our luggage out, which we made the negroes
carry, being willing to ease ourselves as long as we could; but at the end
of these two days, in short, there was not water enough to swim a London
wherry.

We now set forward wholly by land, and without any expectation of more
water-carriage. All our concern for more water was to be sure to have a
supply for our drinking; and therefore upon every hill that we came near we
clambered up to the highest part to see the country before us, and to make
the best judgment we could which way to go to keep the lowest grounds, and
as near some stream of water as we could.

The country held verdant, well grown with trees, and spread with rivers and
brooks, and tolerably well with inhabitants, for about thirty days' march
after our leaving the canoes, during which time things went pretty well
with us; we did not tie ourselves down when to march and when to halt, but
ordered those things as our convenience and the health and ease of our
people, as well our servants as ourselves, required.

About the middle of this march we came into a low and plain country, in
which we perceived a greater number of inhabitants than in any other
country we had gone through; but that which was worse for us, we found them
a fierce, barbarous, treacherous people, and who at first looked upon us as
robbers, and gathered themselves in numbers to attack us.

Our men were terrified at them at first, and began to discover an unusual
fear, and even our black prince seemed in a great deal of confusion; but I
smiled at him, and showing him some of our guns, I asked him if he thought
that which killed the spotted cat (for so they called the leopard in their