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a nice old chap, tho we can hardly be L.28. P.8.
said to understand each other, and she brought me
pineapples & tomatoes as lib.
These people though still Karia are very different
from the sophisticated crowd around Itki, whom
I tried so hard to persuade to carry for me a
month ago. I asked for six boys this evening to
go through to Kagi and 8 jumped forward - all
husky lads so I left them to settle among themselves,
where they'll be left out.
Sun. Jun. 7. Well, it has been a hectic day all right.
We left Enroia at 7 a.m. - down to a lake (620 metres);
a steep climb up a ridge side and continued along its
crest to a clearing reached at 9.15 (1300 m.), named
Tabunuma. Wonderful view where cloud did not interfere.
I found the people had laid out quantities of tree,
sweet potatoes, watermelons, pawpaws & pineapples neatly
on beds of leaves - like a market place - in anticipation
of our arrival. I brought a few pawpaws for the boys to
eat at once, but told the inhabitants that I could
only buy their food if they would bring
it on with us to Kagi. Nothing left, they did.
Well, there was Efogi down below us on the side
of a huge basin-like valley with lesser valleys
fluting its sides like rays - and across the
way, seeming on a level with us was Kagi
our destination; but with this difference, we at
4200 feet were on a ridge. But Kagi (on a small
ridge) nestled among huge hills that loomed around it
& rose above it for at least another 3000 feet.
We got down to Efogi at 11.30 (1125 m.); then due to
one river (860m), over a ridge (970m) & then go to the
Efogi R. (860m); Then a huge climb brought us to
Tabunuma (1300 m.); a sharp dip to a lake at 1140 m.,
and another substantial climb to Kagi our destination,
(1450 m.). Approx. 4700 feet then is our open air
verandah for about a week to come.
The Ivoria village policemen came along with us, and