Some had leaped off the bridge, and allowed their cloaks to float down the stream.

Part of my goods, abandoned in the hurry, were brought up from the bottom after I was safe.

Great was the pleasure expressed when they found that I could swim, like themselves, without the aid of a tail, and I did and do feel grateful to these poor heathens for the promptitude with which they dashed in to save, as they thought, my life.

I found my clothes cumbersome in the water; they could swim quicker from being naked.

They swim like dogs, not frog-fashion, as we do.
In the evening we crossed the small rivulet Lozeze, and came to some villages of the Kasabi, from whom we got some manioc in exchange for beads.