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are collected in little heaps and rows, which shows that all 

 these rough mountains were cultivated. Wo arrive at a 

 village on the Lake shore. Kirila islet is about a quarter of 

 a mile from the shore. The Megunda people cultivated 

 these hills in former times. Thunder all the morning, and a 

 few drops of rain fell. It will ease the men's feet when it 

 does fall. They call out earnestly for it, " Come, come with 

 hail ! " and prepare their huts for it. 



31st October. — Through a long pass after we had climbed 

 over Winelao. Came to an islet one and a half mile 

 long, called Kapessa, and then into a long pass. The 

 population of Megunda must have been prodigious, for all 

 the stones have been cleared, and every available inch of 

 soil cultivated. 



The population are said to have been all swept away by 

 the Matuta. 



Going south we came to a very large arm of the Lake, 

 with a village at the end of it in a stockade. This arm is 

 seven or eight miles long and about two broad. We killed 

 a cow to-day, and found peculiar flat worms in the substance 

 of the liver, and some that were rounded. 



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