The Granite Pillar of Kinsembo. 
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Ajoujo ; the sides are lashed together or fastened 
by thwarts, and both are made to bend a little 
too much inwards. 
It was dark when we climbed up the stiff Jacob’s 
ladder along the landward side of the white Kin¬ 
sembo bluff. There are three ramps : the outer¬ 
most is fit only for unshod feet; the central is 
better for those who can squeeze through the 
rocky crevices, and the furthest is tolerably easy ; 
but it can be reached only by canoeing across the 
stream. Mr. Hunter of Messrs. Tobin’s house re¬ 
ceived us in the usual factory of the South Coast, 
a ground-floor of wicker-work, windowless, and 
thatched after native fashion. The chief agent, 
who shall be nameless, was drunk and disorderly : 
it is astonishing that men of business can trust 
their money to such irresponsible beings ; he had 
come out to Blackland a teetotaller, and presently 
his condition became a living lecture upon geo¬ 
graphical morality. 
The night gave us a fine study of the Kinsembo 
mosquito, a large brown dipter, celebrated even 
upon this coast. A barrel of water will act as 
nursery ; at times the plagues are said to extin¬ 
guish a lantern, and to lie an inch deep at the 
bottom. I would back them against a man’s life 
after two nights of full exposure : the Brazilian 
“ Marimbondo” is not worse. At 7 a.m. on the next 
day we descended the easiest of the ramps, which 
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