The Sherbro and its hinterland . d come running up, and begged that he might follow me,which I had allovv^ed him to do. He was acquainted withthe route to this town of Karasa, and when the night setin it was so absolutely dark that I had to put this man infront of me, get him to hold one end of a stick while Iwith the other end followed as well as I could,—the boysall keeping near. In this way we groped for two solidhours, when we heard a great din at some little distance,by which we knew we were nearing the town. With thegreatest difficulty we were struggling on when we sawlights coming towar
The Sherbro and its hinterland . d come running up, and begged that he might follow me,which I had allovv^ed him to do. He was acquainted withthe route to this town of Karasa, and when the night setin it was so absolutely dark that I had to put this man infront of me, get him to hold one end of a stick while Iwith the other end followed as well as I could,—the boysall keeping near. In this way we groped for two solidhours, when we heard a great din at some little distance,by which we knew we were nearing the town. With thegreatest difficulty we were struggling on when we sawlights coming towards us. The bearers of these lightsmet us at the top of a gorge, which it would have beenutterly impossible for us to have seen without the we were probably saved from a serious disaster. Withthe help of the light, however, we managed to descend,only to enter a long narrow cutting in the earth, coldand dark. This took us to a low hill which we ascended to findthe town of Karasa on the top. I believe I was not in the. Kit;. 76.—Nativk IIaikdressint.—Womkn ov .Mosaia wkakinc. tiik KOLONA. WaRRA-WaRUA, LlMliA COL:.MKV. XXVI SIR F. CARDEWS TOUR 293 best of tempers when I reached that town, footsore andweary and anxious about the last part of the journey. Iwas only able to walk straight to the hut that had beenselected for me, and, without waiting for any food, I threwmyself on the mud bed and was soon fast asleep. Wewere still in the Warra Warra Limba country. Duringthis march we had got into a belt of fan palms and locusttrees. The foliage of the fan palms was exceedinglybeautiful and afforded a welcome contrast to the oil palmof Mendi. The fan palm, apart from its fan-like leaves,may be distinguished by a peculiar bulging in the upperpart of the stem. The locust trees provided good andportable food for the column. Most of the boys might be seen with bundles of the longyellow pods, which they greatly appreciated, and so did I,for on the march one becomes accustome
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