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made high demands because I slept in a "house of cloth" 

 and must be rich. They seemed to think that they had a 

 perfect right to payment for simply passing through the 

 country. 



Beyond the Chikapa we crossed the Kamaue, a small, 

 deep stream proceeding from the S.S.W. and flowing into 

 the Chikapa. 



On the 30th of April we reached the Loajima, where wo 

 had to form a bridge to effect our passage. This was not 

 ko difficult an operation as some might imagine; for a tree 



was growing in a horizontal position across part of the 

 stream, and, there being no want of the tough climbing 

 plants which admit of being knitted like ropes, Senhor P. 

 soon constructed a bridge. The Loajima was here about 

 twenty-five yards wide, but very much deeper than where 

 I had crossed before on the shoulders of Mawhanana. Tho 



