Two creeks were then discovered, so small as scarcely to deserve the name, and which would, under ordinary circumstances, have been overlooked.

The one branched off to the north--the other to the west.

We were obliged to get out of the boat to push up the former, the leeches sticking in numbers to our legs.

The creek continued for about thirty yards, when it was terminated; and, in order fully to satisfy myself of the fact, I walked round the head of it by pushing through the reeds.

Night coming on, we returned to the tree at which we had stopped during the rain, and slept under it.