This he followed down for four hundred miles before he came upon the junction of the two.

The union of the two formed a broad navigable river, which he still followed, although he had lost his reckoning, and did not know whether he had travelled five hundred or five thousand miles.

One thing, however, he was convinced of, and that was that he had never travelled south of west.

He asserted that he had a good view of the sea, from the mouth of this most desirable river, and had seen a large island from which, so the natives reported, there came copper-coloured men in large canoes to take away scented wood.

The Kindur ran through immense plains, and past a burning mountain.