ABSTRACT
ON the 23rd of November, leaving the barge with Albert and Patterson at Mafamale,
we proceeded in the pinnace to the south, anchoring under shelter of Hurd Island, another of the wooded banks in the Primeira group. The following morning we continued our course south, cruising between the islands and the main-land until the 29th November, when we entered Quinzanza river in search of
water. Crossing the bar, we anchored off a village a short distance up the river. The natives, who at first seemed to view us with suspicion, would not come near us, but at last, on our making signs to them that we were friends, and throwing them some empty bottles, they approached us in their canoes, and, after receiving tobacco, &c., for what they had to sell in the way of fruit and eggs, they showed us where we could obtain water and helped us to fill our casks. Leaving the river again before dark, we stood along the coast to the northward for the night, keeping a look-out for dhows.
