Here they stopped for an hour or two, and then the sea breeze sprang up, a sail was hoisted, and late at night they passed a French guardship placed to mark the boundary of that settlement at a point where a large tributary called the Boqui runs into it.

Here is a little island called Nenge Nenge, formerly a missionary station, where the natives are still Christians.

At this place the canoe was hauled ashore.

The Houssas had already been instructed in the method of pitching the tent, and in a very few minutes this was erected.

It was a double poled tent, some ten feet square, and there was a waterproof sheet large enough to cover the whole of the interior, thus preventing the miasma from arising from the ground within it.