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improve their looks. Others had their crowns curiously 
cut in a variety of compartments, like a chess-board, or 
a French parterre, or made up into numerous little 
tails, ornamented with beads, standing erect as if to 
emulate the “ fretful porcupine,” The natives of this 
branch speak the Oru,.or Brass language. 
The shore on entering the O'guborih branch was at 
first very low ; it afterwards became more elevated, but 
was not seen higher than about four feet above the 
present level of the river. Some marks on the stems of 
trees made it appear that the floods are sometimes even 
much higher than at the period of our visit. 
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