David LeRoy Topping notebook, 1904-1940
Page 107
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126 Thurs, O.A. 28 I was up at not far from six, had my bath, a couple of & crackers for breakfast and then packed up and at eight we started with 28 coolies and 3 ponies, "Bamfield" and I. Later latter turns riding all the day. All the forenoon we rode through rolling country and at noon stopped for tiffin of sardines and crackers; my first meal and it tasted might good. We had a long stretch of rolling and more or less cultivated country but later in the afternoon it began to get more wild and rugged and our path wound around the hillsides through thick jungle. Quite late Mrs. Clements and I washed a head, and it was dark 6.45 when we got to the house at Wabago. The coolies came a little later; we had a dinner of salmon & crackers and a dessert of Macintosh Toffees