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Ntre of the range is reached. In some places it has a perpendicular rock
face of many hundred feet; in other places it is broken rock with bush
growth, and only at very long distances can tracks be found, and even
then it is difficult to get up. We descended to the river, a large one,
flowing west, through great rocks, often lost, sometimes only pools
appearing here and there until, some distance down, and when eight
hundred feet above sea-level, it comes out a fine and flowing river. We
had a good bath, and, of course, the inevitable _kuku_, and then skirted
the side of the ridge, passing close by and under great rocks and
overhanging cliffs, and up a most extraordinary steep path into splendid
sugar-cane and taro plantations. Weary, we sat down and ate sugar-cane
under the shade of a great rock. This West Indian "long breakfast" goes
well when thirsty and hungry. The natives who accompanied us, having
caught a large rat and frog, turned them on the fire and ate them. A
truly wonderful country! What terrible convulsions of nature there must
have been here ere these great boulders were displaced and rolled about
like mere pebbles! The villages are so built that they are accessible
only on t