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about fifty feet high. Circumstances prevented our 
exploring the Qua-qua. 
Besides the two rivers just mentioned — the Dualla 
and the Qua-qua — some creeks empty themselves into 
the estuary, viz. the B6mano, Mongo, and Bimbia, 
which are merely the drains of the high mountain 
range bounding the western side of the estuary. 
With one exception, all the natives declared that 
there is no water communication from the estuary of 
the Oameroons round the mountain, to the Rio del 
Rey, or Rumby River. Young Naka alone said, “If 
you slave for twenty days in a canoe, you can go 
round to Balondo on the Rumby River but on con- 
fronting him with all the principal traders, he ac- 
knowledged, that being only “a little boy” — about 
twenty-five years old, — he could not speak from expe- 
rience ; he had only heard it from others. These 
traders — chief men — all asserted that the water stops 
at Balling, about thirty miles up the Bimbia River, 
where there are high hills, rocks, and springs of water. 
There are plenty of elephants in the woods. The 
Mongo and Balung people go over the hills by way of 
Ekombah and Ebon] eh, to Balondo on the Rumby 
River ; or by taking another route from Ebonjeh to 
Bamboko, on the western base of the mountain. The 
communication is very difficult, on account of the 
hilly and woody nature of the country ; and it must 
be lofty, as they said it was very cold. Some of them 
stated that the River Rumby terminates at Balondo. 
