The First Ascent of the Kasa Being Some Records of Service Under the Lone Sta
The First Ascent of the Kasa Being Some Records of Service Under the Lone Sta
Charles Somerville Latrobe Bateman
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We overtook our consort at a deserted 6o UNDER THE LONE STAR. Shammatuka fishing-village on the same bank, and there encamped. The houses here were totally different from any I had seen farther down the rivers. They are formed entirely with thin stems and leaves of the creeping bamboo, and are of the simplest possible construction. During the day we had seen very few of the natives : they had probably THE LULUA KAPIDS FROM THE STATION. gone off in dread of the strangers. There was an appear- an...ce of poverty about their belongings quite unaccountable in a country which looked, at any rate, as if well supplied with natural wealth, although the clearings and plantations amidst the luxuriant forest were small and far between. One part of the river passed to-day was narrow, and dan- gerous with sunken rocks, and the current was very swift. THE END OF OUR VOYAGE. 6i Leaving- early on the 7th, we proceeded up the river, here very rapid, and impeded with dangerous rocks, and arrived about mid-day at our destination, the point at which the river Luebo, coming from the south, falls into the Lulua, which there turns somewhat abruptly in an easterly direc- tion, and where, within half a mile, its navigation is stopped by boiling rapids.
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