The weather was very hot, and at the end of the nine miles we reached a saltwater inlet so broad and deep that we could not cross it.

We here halted and rested a little and then made our way back to the boats.
APPROACH OF NATIVES.
I found Mr.Smith much better and, there being now nothing to delay us, we started.

When we had got about half a mile down the river we saw two natives following us along the shore, jumping about in the most extraordinary way, and, from their gesticulations and manner, evidently ordering us to quit the coast.

From the mountebank actions of these fellows I guessed that they were two of the native sorcerers, who were charming us away but, as I was not disposed to be so easily got rid of, we pulled near the shore and lay upon our oars to give them an opportunity of coming up to us.
ATTEMPT AT A CONFERENCE.

INTERVIEW WITH NATIVES.
Upon this they mounted a little eminence, blew most furiously at us, and performed other equally efficacious ceremonies.