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rising at least a thousand feet perpendicular out of the 
river, which, nevertheless, was overgrown with a gigantic 
stately forest. To climb this mountain from the river-side, 
was quite impossible; in the furrows which had been formed 
by the running down of the water, the ground appeared of a 
dark red colour, evidently from its ferruginous nature. 
On the 10tb, we arrived at the spot where the Lana meets 
the Marowina, and immediately below the junction of these 
two rivers, the combined mass of water hurls itself over innu- 
merable rocks, arranged in somewhat of an amphitheatre. It 
is impossible for me to state the descent which the river here 
makes, but the fall must be considerable, and the view which 
is obtained when looking down the cascade is really sublime. 
The forest beneath is veiled from the eye by a dim cloud of 
mist rising from the foaming surface, and forms a most 
pleasing contrast with the vivid green of the bush that lines 
the shores, across which a rainbow stretches. The whole 
enormous mass of water resembles an undulating snow-feld, 
and the roaring is really tremendous. At a great height 
above the stream, a number of Anhingas (Plotus melano- 
gaster) were hovering, and darting, from time to time, on the 
fish which had probably been killed by the dashing waves 
against the rocks. We doubled this fall, which is called by 
the negroes “ Singatity.” 
The next day, May 11th, we arrived, late in the afternoon, 
at the first village of the Bush Negroes. The joy expressed 
by those individuals who received us were as extravagant as 
that with which they welcomed their relatives who accompa- 
nied us; yet it was perfectly sincere and expressive of the 
danger to which they knew we had all been exposed. I saw 
one of these Bush Negroes, who was a hundred years old— 
an age they not uncommonly attain, and who declared that he 
had never known the river to be so high. I had to stop at 
every village, that I might receive the congratulations of its 
inhabitants, so that it was the 14th of May ere I reached the 
place of my future habitation, which was on a small island. 
The nyipto lhave given you of my predecessors, may 
