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nway, that no effort had been made to improve the road 

 here. 



Probably, if a Httle labour was expended, the solid 

 rock would be reached, and a fairly good and perma- 

 nent road could then be easily made. We got to Clia- 

 pa at 4 r.M., and found the missionaries, who gave us a 

 hearty welcome, and were astonished at seeing us. 

 Heavy rain fell just as we arrived, and some time after- 

 wards, as we were sitting in the verandah, talking and 

 smokhig, a noise resembling rapidly approaching 

 thunder was heard. On going to the back of the 

 mission-house, where there was a garden, at the end of 

 which was a dry watercourse, we were just in time to 

 see a mass of turbid water, bearing along huge blocks 

 of granite weighing man}' tons each, break over a 

 precipice, nearly two hundred feet high, with a deafen- 

 mg roar, and plunge into the watercourse beneath. In 

 a moment the flood was passing the bottom of the 

 garden, but the scene of the wildly rushing water is 

 more than my pen is able to describe. A brown- 

 coloured flood dashed furiously along, bearino- with it 

 large masses of granite, and tossing them about as if 

 they were mere chips. These were violently thrown 

 against each other and against the bed of the course, 

 with such force as to make the ground tremble beneath 

 our feet. 



