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The highest and most formidable of these pongos, which are descended on rafts, that of Mayasi, is however only three feet in height. What the inhabitants of Upper Egypt and Nubia call chellal in the Nile, is called yellala in the River Congo.
Barrow observes, that among the great number of these rapids there is one fall, which alone is thirty feet high. On the other hand, the famous pongos of the river Amazon, so dangerous to go up, the falls of Rentema, of Escurrebragas, and of Mayasi, are but a few feet in perpendicular height.
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