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Lander’s Travels

CHAPTER VIII
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The stings were picked out, and her wounds washed and anointed, but she refused to proceed further.

The slatees by the whip forced her to proceed about four or five hours longer, when, attempting to run away, she fell down with extreme weakness.
Again was the whip applied, but ineffectually; the unfortunate slave was unable to rise.

After attempting to place her upon an ass, on which she could not sit erect, a litter of bamboo canes was made, upon which she was tied with slips of bark, and carried on the heads of two slaves for the remainder of the day.

The coffle halted at the foot of a high hill, called Gankaran-kooro.

The travellers had only eaten one handful of meal each during the day's journey, exposed to the ardour of a tropical sun.


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