All flow very rapidly just now and are flooded with clean water.

Everyone carries an axe, as if constantly warring with the forest.

My long-continued fever ill disposes me to enjoy the beautiful landscape.

We are evidently on the ridge, but people have not a clear conception of where the rivers run.
_19th March, 1867._--A party of young men came out of the village near which we had encamped to force us to pay something for not going into their village.

"The son of a great chief ought to be acknowledged," &c.