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Updated: May 27, 2025
The ferrying of our Expedition across this broad watery waste will occupy considerable time. May 5th. Kingwere, the canoe proprietor, came about 11 A.M. from his village at Gongoni, beyond the watery plain.
Kingwere, the canoe paddler, espying us from his brake covert, on the opposite side, civilly responded to our halloos, and brought his huge hollowed tree skilfully over the whirling eddies of the river to where we stood waiting for him.
May 6th. After impressing Kingwere with the urgent necessity of quick action on his part, with a promise of an extra five-dollar gold piece, I had the satisfaction to behold the last man reach my camp at 3.30 p.m. An hour later, and we are en route, at a pace that I never saw equalled at any time by my caravan.
By his movements I am fain to believe him to be a descendant of some dusky King Log, for I have never seen in all this land the attributes and peculiarities of that royal personage so faithfully illustrated as in Kingwere. He brought two canoes with him, short, cranky things, in which only twelve of us could embark at a time. It was 3 o'clock in the afternoon before we arrived at Gongoni village.
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