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CHAPTER XVI. 
Still Running the Gauntlet on the Rivek. 
At 4 a.m. of the 5th of January we were awake, cooking 
betimes the food that was to strengthen us for the task 
that lay before us, while the screaming lemur and the 
WE LOSE OUR CHIEF CARPENTER. 
soko still alarmed the dark forest with their weird 
cries. 
We were left undisturbed until 8 A.M., when the 
canoes of the Mwana Ntaba were observed to cross over 
to the left bank, and in response to their signals the 
forest behind our camp was soon alive with wild men. 
Frank distributed thirty rounds to each of the forty- 
