TlMEHRI. 
ing boats, it became evident that the transport of these, 
as well as of our necessarily very great but indispensable 
stores of baggage up the portage path, which in many 
places is very steep and is some five miles in length, though 
possible would occupy an undue time ; so that we de- 
termined to leave our boats below and to use, for the 
further short journey which we could still make by river, 
two extraordinarily long, narrow and very cranky 
"dug out" boats which we were lucky enough to find 
moored at the head of the fall. 
Chinebowie we ourselves reached on the 8th of No- 
vember ; but we had to wait there till the 14th while 
sending back the two small bnats twice for the baggage. 
Then began our walk, and at the same time began our 
constant and often serious difficulties in finding a 
sufficient number of Indians to carry the baggage. On 
this first occasion, at Chinebowie, we had to leave more 
than thirty loads behind, purposing to send back for them 
at the first opportunity. 
Three days of most dreary and wearisome walking 
through the forest in a south-westerly direction, the 
path very frequently leading up hills of steepness very 
formidable to us heavily loaded as we were, brought us to 
the first human habitation, a small settlement of Parta- 
mona Indians,* called Araiwaparoo. Here a day's rest be- 
came necessary, and was especially welcome in that from 
that tiny clearing, made for the settlement, in the wide 
forest we were able, for the first time for three days, 
to see the sun and the clear and open sky. 
* The Partamonas are a branch of the Ackawois. I purpose to give 
some further account of them in a special paper which I propose to 
devote to the ethnological facts noted during our journey. 
