was very low and fandy, and fomething like the mouth of a river which discharged itself into the sea, and which had been taken no notice of by us before, as it was so shallow that the Indians were obliged to take every thing out of their canoes, and carry it over land. We rowed up the river four or five leagues, and then took into a branch of it that ran firft to the eastward and then to the northward here it became much narrower, and the ftream exceffively rapid, fo that we gained but little way, though we wrought very hard. At night we landed upon its banks, and had a most uncomfortable lodging, it being a perfect fwamp; and we had nothing to cover us, though it rained exceffively. The Indians were little better off than we, as there was no wood here to make their wigwams fo that all they could do was to prop up the

;

bark, which they carry in the bottom of their canoes, and

fhelter themselves as well as they could to the leeward of it. Knowing the difficulties they had to encounter here, they had provided themselves with fome feal; but we had not a morfel to eat, after the heavy fatigues of the day, excepting a fort of root we faw the Indians make use of, which was very difagreeable to the taste. We laboured all next day against the stream, and fared as we had done the day before. The next day brought us to the carrying place. Here was plenty of wood, but nothing to be got for fuftenance. We paffed this night as we had frequently done, under a tree; but what we fuffered at this time is not casy to be expressed. I had been three days at the oar without kind of nourishment except

any

the wretched root above mentioned. I had no fhirt, for it had rotted off by bits. All my clothes confifted of a

fhort grieko (fomething like a bear-fkin), a piece of red

cloth which had once been a waistcoat, and a ragged

pair of trowsers, without fhoes or ftockings."

Note 2. A Briton and a friend.] Don Patricio Gedd, a Scotch phyfician in one of the Spanish fettlements, hofpitably relieved Byron and his wretched affociates, of which the Commodore fpeaks in the warmest terms of gratitude.

Note 3. Or yield the lyre of Heav'n another string.

The feven ftrings of Apollo's harp were the fymbolical reprefentation of the feven planets. Herfchel, by difcovering an eighth, might be faid to add another string to the inftrument.

Note 4. The Swedish fage.] Linnæus.

Note 5. Deep from his vaults the Loxian murmurs

flow.

Loxias is a name frequently given to Apollo by Greek writers it is met with more than once in the Chophora of Æfchylus.

Note 6. Unlocks a generous ftore at thy command, Like Horeb's rocks beneath the prophet's

hand.

See Exodus, chap. xvii. 3, 5, 6.

Note 7. Wild Obi flies.] Among the negroes of the Weft Indies, Obi, or Obiah, is the name of a magical power, which is believed by them to affect the object of its malignity with dismal calamities. Such a belief muft undoubtedly have been deduced from the fuperftitious my

thology of their kinfmen on the coaft of Africa. I have therefore perfonified Obi as the evil fpirit of the African, although the hiftory of the African tribes mentions the evil spirits of their religious creed by a different appella

tion.

Note S. Sibir's dreary mines.] Mr. Bell of Antermony, in his Travels through Siberia, informs us that the name of the country is univerfally pronounced Sibir by the Ruffians.

Note 9. Prefaging wrath to Poland-and to man

The hiftory of the partition of Poland, of the massacre in the fuburbs of Warfaw, and on the bridge of Prague, the triumphant entry of Suwarrow into the Polifh capital, and the infult offered to human nature, by the blaf