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kerchief up to mine as a protection, removing it now and then in order to gaze at the group around

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��When tea was made, our comestibles were spread upon plantain leaves, and we set to with the a\idity of hunters, the men apparently enjoying their meal with equal zest in a circle of their own.

A small room like a closet formed our dormi- tory, and here upon a few rough planks, over which our servant threw a blanket, we slept the sound sleep of travellers fatigued with a long da\'s work and the want of rest the previous night.

I>y five next UKjrm'ng we rose and continued our upward route, the summit of the Pangarango being eiglit miles distant from the hut of Tjibur- rum. \\ e had not proceeded far ])efore we saw two laigv rocks standing jposite each other like the piHars of a gat(.'. The mandoi^r, on passing them, took off liis tudoiKj* most rcsj)ectfullv, an
 * 'I'liiloiKj. a siicfics nf coiiic'al-sljaj)fil hut.

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