Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition : during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 . s, they leftthe town of Coronganga at an early hour in the morning. The best R E W A. 131 possible understanding existed between themselves and the natives,and they distributed presents to the chiefs, for which the latter ex-pressed many thanks. Shortly after leaving Coronganga, they passed the town of Na-cundi, containing about six hundred inhabitants. The scenery herewas beautiful, being embellished by many clumps of noble trees,resembling our oaks in their wide-spreading branches, covered w
Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition : during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842 . s, they leftthe town of Coronganga at an early hour in the morning. The best R E W A. 131 possible understanding existed between themselves and the natives,and they distributed presents to the chiefs, for which the latter ex-pressed many thanks. Shortly after leaving Coronganga, they passed the town of Na-cundi, containing about six hundred inhabitants. The scenery herewas beautiful, being embellished by many clumps of noble trees,resembling our oaks in their wide-spreading branches, covered withvines, and interspersed with ferns and tall graceful palms. Thebanks were here twelve feet high, and steep. From appearance thecountry is thickly populated, notwithstanding the destructive warswhich have been waged with the people of Ambau. All the inha-bitants were observed to be clustered in the villages, for the purposeof mutual protection; and the same reason causes them to choose astheir sites for building, either some inaccessible point, or a place thataffords facility for Five miles above Coronganga, the country changes its character;the river passes by cliffs of sandstone five hundred feet in height, 132 REWA. whose stratification dips ten degrees to the eastward. Ranges ofhills now rear themselves to a goodly height, and extend some milesback into the interior. They next passed the town of Naitasiri, where one of the brothersof Phillips, called Savou, is chief. Naitasiri is the capital of thisdistrict, and is next in power to Rewa, on the island of was not disposed to land here; for a misunderstanding hadoccurred between him and his brother, in consequence of Savouhaving taken charge, for Phillips, of some two hundred hogs, ofwhich, when demanded after a short time, only ten or fifteen were tobe found, Savou having either eaten or given away the went on shore in his canoe, and took Savou on board,who spoke as
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