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blocks of wlucli it was formed could nol have weiglietl less than 

 1500 lbs. 



After two days' walking alternately across bare liills and two or three 

 small rivers and savannas, we started on tlie third day through thick 

 bush, and after six miles of continually rising ground, arrived at 

 Warashi, the second largest vilhige in the district. 



Tlie parson was expecteil, and people from other villages round had 

 assembled to meet him. I had walked on two or three miles ahead of 

 him, and when I emerged from the bush and cjime suddenly on the 

 village, I found over 500 men, women, and children drawn up in single 

 line along the path. I was right on them before I saw tiiem, and 

 there was no escaping — I had to shake hands with all. J hnd injured 

 a finger and was wearing a sling for my right arm, but this made 

 no difference — I was regulai-ly mobbed, both hands going at once, 

 I told them I was not the parson, but that he was not far off, this, how- 

 ever, maile no difterence — they either did not believe me or did not care ; 

 I had to go right along, first girls, then boys and women, and, lastly, the 

 men. When I had finished I was at the entrance to tlie clnu-ch, and 

 there I took refuge by sitting in a corner. When the parson and 

 Lennox arrived they had to go through the same performance, but 

 the enthusiasm had to a great extent worn off. When they had got 

 over it we went into the house which the people had just built for 

 the parson ; the men and women then began to bring their piesents 

 for him, some a few yams, others sweet potatoes, plantains, cassava, 

 and other vegetables, and .soon there was a large pile in one corner of 

 the house. 



It was i-ather embarrassing at first to receive these presents, ns the 

 Indians had no word, as far .so we knew, to expre.ss "thank.s."' When 

 anything is given to them they walk away without a word of acknow- 

 ledgment or even a nod, but to us it was embarrassing to receive gifts 

 and in return to only [)oint to the corner wiiere we wished the things 

 placed . 



The village is one of the most prettily situated of any we .saw. A 

 clearing had been made for the houses on a wide ledge on the side of a 

 hill, at the foot of which runs the Yurora River. From the village 

 there is a sj>lendid view to the noith-east of the little valley, steejj 

 mountains tliickly clothed with forest, rising on either side, terminated 

 I)y a Vjig hill called Arawanaroo, where the Yuroia takes its ri.se. The 

 village was quite new, and had replaced Kwaonga which used to be 

 on tiie summit of a neighbouring hill. 



Lennox was laid up the next day and unable to proceed. We there- 

 fore decifled that 1 should push on, leaving him to follow with Quelch, 

 if it was possiljle for him to do .so; so after buying ca-ssava and ordering 

 more to be ready for Quelch, I continued, leaving Lennox in care of the 

 Rev. F. S. I'lingle. On the second day we pa.ssed a tiny village, known 

 as f^akoniiiay-bung-bung, on the summit of a hill of white ((uarlz, and 

 walking for two hours in the valley of the Kaiabiekura, came to the 

 Tipuru River near its junction witli the Ireng, crossing at a shallow 

 part; another two miles brought us to the left bank of the Ireng, 

 running in a southerly ilirection. This river, al.so called Maku, rise» 

 about 40 rniles east of Roraima, aud enters the Takutu about 40 miles 



