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Updated: June 22, 2025
The greater part of this plain is under water in the wet seasons. We walked about ten miles in an east-north-east direction, keeping the Astrolabe Range to our right, when we came to the camp, close by a large river the Laroki. Being afraid of alligators, we preferred having water poured over us to bathing in the river. We did not see a strange native all the way.
It would be folly to return to get the tomahawk, so we kept south and west for some distance, when we came to a deserted village; then we turned west. We crossed the Laroki several times before we came into the open country; at our last crossing we met a company of natives, all armed, on watch for Makapili natives, who were expected to attack them.
We gave him and his little grandchild who accompanied him presents, bade him good-bye, and away. 6th. Here, and in all the villages we have been, we have seen very few women and girls, and very few of the young men seem to be married. Do they kill the girls when born? 7th. Left this morning for a mountain close by, hoping to see the windings of the Laroki from it.
We started this morning after a good breakfast, and had good travelling across a fine level country E.S.E. for about four hours, crossing several times the head of the Laroki: it is a magnificent country for horses.
The Laroki rises in the Owen Stanley Range, and is the drain for the Sogeri district and all the plain; it is very circuitous, and near here very deep and slow, flowing west. 29th. For nearly six hours we have been travelling with our bags, and I can honestly say I feel tired.
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