The villagers lent us canoes to effect our passage; and, having gone to a village about two miles beyond the river, I had the satisfaction of getting observations for both longitude and latitude--for the former, the distance between Saturn and the Moon, and for the latter a meridian altitude of Canopus.Long.22d 57' E., lat.

12d 6' 6" S.
These were the only opportunities I had of ascertaining my whereabouts in this part of Londa.

Again and again did I take out the instruments, and, just as all was right, the stars would be suddenly obscured by clouds.

I had never observed so great an amount of cloudiness in any part of the south country; and as for the rains, I believe that years at Kolobeng would not have made my little tent so rotten and thin as one month had done in Londa.

I never observed in the south the heavy night and early morning rains we had in this country.