May 26th.--At day-break ascended from the plain of Doofroo, and travelled over a rugged country, till ten o'clock, when we met a coffle (at a watering place called _Sootinimma_) bound for Gambia to redeem a person who had been caught for a debt, and was to be sold for a slave, if not ransomed in a few months. There being no water here, we did not halt; but continued our march, two of the soldiers being unable to keep up. The main body of the coffle still kept going on, and at half past twelve reached Bee Creek; from whence we sent back an ass and two Negroes to bring up the two fatigued soldiers. We had no sooner unloaded the asses at the Creek, than some of Isaaco's people, being in search of honey, unfortunately disturbed a large swarm of bees near where the coffle had halted. The bees came out in immense numbers, and attacked men and beasts at the same time. Luckily most of the asses were loose, and gallopped up the valley; but the horses and people were very much stung, and obliged to scamper in all directions. The fire which had been kindled for cooking being deserted, spread, and set fire to the bamboos; and our baggage had like to have been burnt. In fact, for half an hour the bees seemed to have completely put an end to our journey. In the evening, when the bees became less troublesome, and we could venture to collect our cattle, we found that many of them were very much stung and swelled about the head. Three asses were missing; one died in the evening, and one next morning, and we were forced to leave one at Sibikillin; in all six: besides which, our guide lost his horse, and many of the people were very much stung about the face and hands. During the night got the telescope ready in order to set the watch to Greenwich time by observing an emersion of the second satellite of Jupiter. Mr. Anderson took the time, and I was seated at the telescope half an hour before it happened, in order to be sure of observing it. The satellite emerged by ' " _Watch_ 11 49 16 Greenwich 11 46 30 --------- Watch too fast 0 2 46 --------- Emersion by Nautical Almanack 11 49 51 Equation 0 3 21 --------- Mean time at Greenwich 11 46 30 Observations of the sun taken with artificial horizon and the watch the same evening, to determine the apparent time. H. M. S. | ' 5 57 15 | 30 24 0 58 0 | 30 14 0 58 42 | 29 43 H. M. S. | ' 6 4 15 | 27 11 0 5 0 | 26 51 0 5 35 | 26 36 H. M. S. | ' 6 6 54 | 25 56 0 7 34 | 25 38 0 8 13 | 25 20 Observed the meridian altitude of the sun within a mile of Bee Creek the same day;