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trunk of a solitary tree standing erect on its summit, 
with all its late companions prostrated around it; 
the hill on the opposite hank, upwards of a hundred 
feet high, was in a similar condition, each forming a 
prominent mark in the landscape. At half-past two 
we reached the mouth of the Rama river, with its hill 
of two hundred feet pointing out the entrance. It 
empties itself into the main river on the right hank, hut 
I was much disappointed at the insignificant appear¬ 
ance of its mouth, only about fifty feet across, although 
deep for some little distance up stream. A few yards 
before we opened out this river, we passed another 
remarkable rock called the Rama Rook, very similar 
to the one I have already described above, and likely to 
prove equally dangerous at certain stages of the river, 
if not well marked. From here the country began to be 
broken up, several very respectable hills of two or three 
hundred feet in height making their appearance, with 
small creeks between, choked up, however, with 
fallen trees; the points of the bends were also of a 
rocky character, losing altogether the alluvial attri¬ 
butes of those lower down. I estimate the mouth of* 
the Rama to be about fifty-five miles by the bends of ‘ 
the river from the lagoon, but not more than thirty as 
the crow flies, its bearing being as nearly as possible 
due west from Blewfields. 
From the Rama to the Russwass, more commonly 
called the Mico, occupied just an hour; and as the 
bends are much longer, and we experienced no cur¬ 
rent, I put down the distance between the two rivers 
at about four miles. 
