The shape the reader will remember from the sketch in that part of the work, and with the exception of only two instances, where they appeared merely temporary affairs, we have noticed no other kind of rafts in use.
Wherever this great similarity in their mode of water-conveyance prevails, we may infer the natives have had communication with each other.
We passed the night in the end of a crooked reach, near the only rocky islet in the river, lying four miles East-South-East from the furthest point I had before attained.

With the exception of a squall from north-east in the afternoon, there was scarcely any wind, and the night was cloudy with some slight showers of rain.

As the mosquitoes allowed us little rest, we were glad, when the day broke, to be again moving.

We now found the river take a north-east direction for eight miles, averaging in width upwards of three-quarters of a mile, and in depth at low-water two fathoms.

A sudden change in the trend of the reaches brought in sight the strange appearance of the country represented in the woodcut annexed.
CURIOSITY PEAK.
The peak on the right bank we named, from the passion it assisted us in gratifying, Curiosity Peak.