THE SURVEY CONTINUED 



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stones and pieces of rock at our carriers in one of the villages 

 below. I was just in time to prevent the soldiers from firing 



ASCENDING A KERRI-KERRI PLATEAU 



at the natives, hundreds of whom were now brandishing 

 their spears and yelling war-cries. An arrow whizzed just 

 by one of the men as I came up. Alexander, who had had 

 the presence of mind to go and get his rifle, now appeared, 

 and with some difficulty and much gesticulation the inter- 



