text:  Some on horseback and some on foot we got away from the village about eight o'clock attended by thirteen natives to whose calabashes our prog and clothing had been transferred; these calabashes answer this purpose admirably; they are gourds of enormous size cut through rather above their largest diameter which is from eighteen inches to two feet; the half of another gourd forms the lid and keeps all clean and dry within; when filled they are hung by net-work to each end of a pole thrown across the shoulders of a native who will thus travel with a load of fifty or sixty pounds about three miles an hour