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 b}^ fatigue, were 

 sent back. Next morning Tudor was attacked by a violent 

 fever. Unfortunately the greatest number appear to be 

 men quite unfit for a long march. The few marines we have 

 are of the veteran battahon.* 



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 -10, and all were 

 stout healthy volunteers. Ed. 



