In Most Domesticated Tribes, Like The Effiks Or The
Igalwa, If They Are Going Out To Their Plantation, They Will
Enclose
a live stick in a hollow piece of a certain sort of wood, which has
a lining of its
Interior pith left in it, and they will carry this
"fire box" with them. Or if they are going on a long canoe journey,
there is always the fire in the bow of the canoe put into a calabash
full of sand, or failing that, into a bed of clay with a sand rim
round it.
By 10 o'clock we are off down to Buea. At 10.15 it pours as it can
here; by 10.17 we are all in our normal condition of bedraggled
saturation, and plodding down carefully and cheerfully among the
rocks and roots of the forest, following the path we have beaten and
cut for ourselves on our way up. It is dangerously slippery,
particularly that part of it through the amomums, and stumps of the
cut amomums are very likely to spike your legs badly - and, my
friend, never, never, step on one of the amomum stems lying straight
in front of you, particularly when they are soaking wet. Ice slides
are nothing to them, and when you fall, as you inevitably must,
because all the things you grab hold of are either rotten, or as
brittle as Salviati glass-ware vases, you hurt yourself in no end of
places, on those aforesaid cut amomum stumps.
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