I Find The Ajumba Name For The
Beautiful Shrub That Has Long Bunches Of Red, Yellow And Cream-
Coloured Young Leaves At The End Of Its Branches Is "Obaa." I Also
Learn That In Their Language Ebony And A Monkey Have One Name.
The
forest on either bank is very lovely.
Some enormously high columns
of green are formed by a sort of climbing plant having taken
possession of lightning-struck trees, and in one place it really
looks exactly as if some one had spread a great green coverlet over
the forest, so as to keep it dry. No high land showing in any
direction. Pagan tells me the extinguisher-shaped juju filled with
medicine and made of iron is against drowning - the red juju is "for
keep foot in path." Beautiful effect of a gleam of sunshine
lighting up a red sandbank till it glows like the Nibelungen gold.
Indeed the effects are Turneresque to-day owing to the mist, and the
sun playing in and out among it.
The sandbanks now have their cliffs to the N.N.W. and N.W. At 9.30,
the broad river in front of us is apparently closed by sandbanks
which run out from the banks thus: -
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S. bank bright-red} N. bank.
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Current running strong along south bank. This bank bears testimony
of this also being the case in the wet season, for a fringe of torn-
down trees hangs from it into the river. Pass Seke, a town on north
bank, interchanging the usual observations regarding our
destination.
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