320 PROFESSOR SMITH’S JOURNAL. 
The river here is full of rapids and rocks. It is however 
navigable, though not without great difficulty, and no 
canoes are to be had ; and as it would take too much time 
to carry canoes over land by the way of Kullu, the plan 
of the Captain to make double-boats of them must there- 
fore be given up. A journey by land over Jonga was 
resolved upon. We may reach it, we are informed, in a 
day, by proceeding from Kullu over the high plain. We 
returned in the evening by the shortest way to Kullu, 
where we did not arrive until late. Mr.'Tudor and several 
men, who were already quite exhausted by fatigue, were 
sent back. Next morning Tudor was attacked by a violent 
fever. Unfortunately the greatest number appear to be 
men quite unfit for along march. The few marines we have 
are of the veteran battalion.* 
August 17. The sick were sent before our departure 
early in the morning. We made a visit to the Tjenu, who 
promised to send at noon twenty men to carry their 
baggage back again by the shortest way down the river. 
* There is no such battalion ; the oldest marine was not 40, and all were 
stout healthy volunteers. Ep. 
