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great caution. How in the world the poor natives 

 ever got up that place, many of them carrying one 

 hundred pounds' weight on their backs, is a mystery. 

 Father and I were very nearly exhausted when we 

 reached the top. We took a good rest, and then 

 started on over a nearly level country, covered with 

 large trees. We noticed a great change in the vegeta- 

 tion from that which we had left in the morning. We 

 saw oaks very like our own trees at home, and the 

 grasses and mosses looked like those of a temperate 

 climate. The air was much cooler; and the day, now 

 far advanced, was like one of our early autumn days, 

 when the heat of summer has passed. 



We passed a thriving little village near a small creek, 

 where we obtained a drink of cool water ; and, after a 

 two or three mile walk down a gentle slope, we arrived 

 at Narinuma. It was a village of sixteen houses, besides 

 five tree-houses, fifty or sixty feet from the ground. 

 The village looked clean, and the houses tasty and 

 very comfortable. One house, larger and stronger 

 than the rest, was the visitors' house, or hotel, where 

 strangers have a roof to cover them, and a comfortable 

 place to sleep, free of charge. This we afterwards 

 found to be the custom in all the villages. The lar- 

 gest and best house is for the stranger. 



Narinuma is near the Lalloki River, on a rocky 

 mountain overlooking the deep valley. This almost 

 perpendicular rock, more than one thousand feet high, 



