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Title: Modern travel, a record of exploration, travel
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Davidson, Norman James. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott company London, Seeley, Service & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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f doing tradewith the white men restrained the natives from migratingto a less luckless locality. The darkness of night, thegurgling suck of the waters, the cries of the natives, andthe fall of great trees, both in the water and in the jungle,produced a pandemonium not readily forgotten. Scarcelyhad the natives recovered from this disaster than anotherone threatened. This decided them, for sick of beingwashed so regularly and persistently out of their homesthey packed their canoes with every portable article,sailed down the stream, and were no more seen, leavingonly a few loafers. While on a collecting expedition. Grant, a member ofthe expedition, hit on a path which led to Wambirimi,the principal home of the pygmies discovered manymonths before. His reception was decidedly cold, nowomen or children being seen, a sure sign of unfriendlyfeeling, and he was given to understand that his roomrather than his company was desired. Rawling andMarshall determined to follow the same path to the
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Pygmies Making Fire I. By friction causing the wood to smoulder. 2 and 3. Blowing the smouldering embers into a flame A LAND OF PERPETUAL RAIN 249 pygmy village and spend a night amongst them, and, ifpossible, take notes, measurements, and photographs.They hoped, also, to see the womenkind. No time waslost in setting out. It was eight months since Rawlinghad last seen the Kapare river, along which he now wastravelling ; all the old landmarks had vanished, carriedaway by the swirling floods, or were so altered as to beunrecognisable, and their old camp, together with twomiles of the path they had hewn with so much labour,had completely vanished. On the third day they set forth on the final climb tothe village of Wambirimi. The track led directly upthe narrow ravine out of which the river flowed. Attimes it wound along razor-backed ridges, at othersdropped into dark and gloomy ravines, but was alwayscompressed into the smallest dimensions by the all-enveloping jungle. Not a sound broke

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