We IIeach Tüarutu Village, 
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and all remembrance of the sufferings that we had overcome were for- 
gotten, while the possibility that perhaps next day similar anxieties might 
be awaiting us, lay still further from our thoughts. We could find no 
better place to await the stragglers. Hardly had these noticed our happy 
contented faces, than they received a ncAV hold on life, hurried up in 
quick time, and- after stilling their greed, camped dose at hand with 
similar satisfaction. The Indians threw down their loads, and in spite 
of our remonsti'ances jum,*i)ed into the middle of the pool, both feet 
together, so as to secure, in addition to the quenching of their thirst, a 
refi-eshing bath for their burning limbs, in consequence of which the 
water became certainly more muddy for those who were to follow. 
130. The little stream Manatiwau during the rain^- season pours 
its waters into the AVariniiwau, this in turn falling into the Takutu. 
After taking a rest of at least a couple of hours, during a\ hich several 
of the stragglers had pulled up to us, we found Hendrick, Hamlet and 
two Indians still missing: )iut as both the former were known to be 
the worst walkers, we thought they must have prevailed upon the Indians 
by means of mmv promise or other to lag Ix^hind and show them the way, 
as had alreatly several tim!es proved to be the case, v^ hen they would often 
arrive in camp several hours after ns. AVe accordingly took our depar- 
ture with a view to leaching, if possible, /rnarutu which must still be 
an hour distant: we left Sororeng behind to wait for t!ie belated ones 
and inform them, to that effect. 
187. After we had once more come up to and crossed the open hilly 
savannah which \Nas likewise enclosed here l»y mountains and thick 
forest, we again climb<'d one of the hills, the sides and summit of which 
-were regnlarly covered A\üth quartz and granite fragments as well as 
with a quantity of brown iroiii-stone in sizes varying from small to coarse 
shot-grains, comparable with bean-ore. We had not yet comje across this 
form of brown iron-stc/iie in such quantity. Xext to these small fragments 
came huge boulders of a grained quartz which on the outside were coloured 
a deep red by the ferruginous clay just as we had previously met it in. 
the form, of hardened concretions on the savannahs of the Mahu. But 
what gave us still gri'ater i»leasure to-day was the sight of the two big 
houses of Tuarutu that from the top of this hill we recognised on a 
second one ahead : we were not long in reaching them. 
138. The mostly-aged occupants of both houses had already been 
informed of our comiug by the family lhat had gone o(l" beforehand, and 
received us with the far from comforting yet frank acknowledgment that 
we could only get a few supplies here as they themselves were also almost 
suffering from want, but that things might prove better in the neigh- 
bouring settlements. 
139. As onr stock of provisions had come to an end, (he gaps had to be 
again filled, and a few days to lie spent here. A snu^all dale Avith a A\'ooded 
oasis, not far from both houses, AVas chosen for our camp, and we had 
just pitched our tents Avhen Hendrick arrived Avith the two Indians, but 
without Hamlet, Avliom they thought had already reached here. From 
Avhat he told us it appeared that Hamlet n)\ust haAC lost himself in the 
forest behind the solid mass of granite, probably on one of the tapir or 
