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Curiosity Aroused by Lovely Perfume. 
and find us, wliicli Lai^pcned sooner tlian lie expected, because the villao-e 
was only a three hours' journey from here. This information roused us 
all to a state of the happiest excitement, whicli was certainly somewhat 
discounted on learning' that on account of a failure in the crops the pro- 
vision fields were in so miserable a condition that several of the inhabi- 
tants w^ere already on the road, while those remaining were for the most 
part forced to satisfy themselves Avith palm fruits instead of Avith cassava 
bread . 
73. The idea of following the riv;'r fartlier by corial had already 
bfen abandoned yesterday, and Sororeng's information, that we only had 
to do another three hours before reaching Tenette, stojiped all furthe*^ 
delay in carrying out our resolution. The great Catai'act, now certainly 
without water, showed on its summit a regular plateau of granite with 
unusually large and numerously embedded masses of quariz, 
while it was also da.shed with transparent quartz-veins like the 
stone with similar ones that we had already noticed at Scabuidc ( Sect. 09) . 
74. Half a mile above Dabaru Falls Ave reached the longed-for landing 
place of Tenette, in the neighbourhood of Cocoya, the great Cataract that 
is formed from the mountains rising on both banks; Mt. Wawat on the 
western, and Mt. Tatat on the eastern. The river also becomes narrowed 
here thi'ough a confusion of granite and gneiss rocks. Both mountains 
are of trifling height. So that our things might be got to the village by 
the following morning, Sororeng went there direct, to bring not only 
onr own people but also some of the Wapisianas to help transport them. 
We ourselves commenced discharging, and found that the water, in spite 
of the continued bailing, had unfortunately made its way throngh certain 
spots in the damaged corials, and had rendered several articles useless. 
75. Early morning already brought us some of our people and some 
of the villagers: the loads were divided and the journey commenced. 
Ä fair-sized hill, rising by itself in the savannah to the south-east of us 
immediately attracted onr attention : it was the small ]\ft. Tenette, after 
which the Wapisianas had named their settlement sitnate on its south- 
eastern slope. 'A woodland flat at its base, stretching half ^vnY up the 
hill. gOA^e it an nnusnallv pleasino- appearance. The interest that the 
A'arying flora* had already aronsed in me on onr way thron irh the soni^- 
what swampy savannah AA^as specially increased by a glorions hyacinth- 
like scent that a stronger current of air would now and again convey to 
us from the still seemincly distant Avooded hill . The closer Ave approach- 
ed, the more was the air imprea'nated with the lovely nerfnme, and the 
greater was my curiosity aroused ns to its source, which was soon to 
welcome me in seA"eral trees of merlinm heicht covered w?tb nnmerons 
white blossoms. Like the scent, the flowers have extraordinarily rrvoat 
resemblance to onr simple whit^ hvacinth. On closer examinntion. T 
rPCOQ'nised it as a new- snecVs of Tahrmnpmnnfnun , a'^d named it after 
Alexander von TTumboldV. T. TTionhohUit Schomb. The tree is disrit;'- 
* Bowd^fliia major Mart.. Buffneria dir^rioofa Tipnih.,' Ziram'a penrhtla Benth., Ch'ffpm-!a 
campesfris Benth., CnpJiea nntisypTiilifira Hlimb. Bonp.. Elevhanfopva carnlinianus 
melocliß melisseiefoUß Benth., M.fascieulata Benth,, M. Imceolata Benth., Ayenia tomentoaa Linn, 
