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L. 28, P. 3.
From Agiama 10 a.m. (575 m.); creek (460 m.); high,
(600 m.); small creek, 11.15 a.m. (510 m.); high ridge,
11.50 (620 m.); Liberí creek; 12.30 (330 m.); Edetakabuna
1 p.m., village policeman Uriqi (400 m).
Such are the ups and downs of one day, and although
trying to get to the hills, we are actually a few
meters lower than when we started. The road
runs in fact quite level distance but from me
or two ridge, it is possible to get a glimpse of
hills + I took a few bearings with the prismatic
while Bill Adamson insisted upon lending me.
The Korias are indifferent carriers, they take
too many steps, but they have me put truck for
double loads (pole birds); each boy carries a
light stick, shoulder high, with a very small crutch
at the top, which they slip under the pole to
support the load when they want a short rest.
Liberí creek flows through a deep valley amidst
huge aglomaic boulders. It is small but today was
easy to cross. The village of Edetakabuna (policeman
Uriqi) is just up the hill a couple of hundred
feet above the crossing.
A gray coccus with sting dorsal line was
brought in just after we arrived. It had been
carried away from the rocks of Liberí mountain by
a dog with a dog. There is at least one cat
here — of the prevailing TortoiseShell here.
I served out a meal of rice + fried fish for the carriers
(four women, three small boys + two babies in arms
included). Some (the adults) chose wheat; others
eats. My rate of pay is 1 shell or if
sticks of tobacco. Then they all said
Good bye & called off back to their village.