- Of A Broadish
Little River Is Just Away On The South Bank.
If you go up this
river - it runs S.E. - you get to a good-sized lake; in this
Lake
there is an island called Adole; then out of the other side of the
lake there is another river which falls into the Ogowe main stream -
but that is not the point of the story, which is that on that island
of Adole, Ngouta, the interpreter, first saw the light. Why he ever
did - there or anywhere - Heaven only knows! I know I shall never
want to write his biography.
On the western bank end of that river going to Adole, there is an
Igalwa town, notable for a large quantity of fine white ducks and a
clump of Indian bamboo. My informants say, "No white man ever live
for this place," so I suppose the ducks and bamboo have been
imported by some black trader whose natal spot this is. The name of
this village is Wanderegwoma. Stuck on sandbank - I flew out and
shoved behind, leaving Ngouta to do the balancing performances in
the stern. This O'Rembo Vongo divides up just below here, I am
told, when we have re-embarked, into three streams. One goes into
the main Ogowe opposite Ayshouka in Nkami country - Nkami country
commences at Ayshouka and goes to the sea - one into the Ngumbi, and
one into the Nunghi - all in the Ouroungou country. Ayzingo now lies
N.E. according to Gray Shirt's arm.
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