All You Have
Got To Do Is To Keep Your Canoe-Head Straight - Quite Straight, You
Understand - For Any Failure So To Do Will Land You The Other Side Of
The Tomb, Instead Of In A Cheerful No-End-Of-A-Row With The Lower
Rapid's Rocks.
This lower rapid is one of the worst in the dry
season; maybe it is so in the wet too, for the river's channel here
turns an elbow-sharp curve which infuriates the Ogowe in a most
dangerous manner.
I hope to see the Ogowe next time in the wet season - there must be
several more of these great sheets of water then over what are rocky
rapids now. Just think what coming down over that ridge above Boko
Boko will be like! I do not fancy however it would ever be possible
to get up the river, when it is at its height, with so small a crew
as we were when we went and played our knock-about farce, before
King Death, in his amphitheatre in the Sierra del Cristal.
CHAPTER VI. LEMBARENE.
In which is given some account of the episode of the Hippopotame,
and of the voyager's attempts at controlling an Ogowe canoe; and
also of the Igalwa tribe.
I say good-bye to Talagouga with much regret, and go on board the
Eclaireur, when she returns from Njole, with all my bottles and
belongings. On board I find no other passenger; the Captain's
English has widened out considerably; and he is as pleasant, cheery,
and spoiling for a fight as ever; but he has a preoccupied manner,
and a most peculiar set of new habits, which I find are shared by
the Engineer.
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