The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-18

EThat S Just about the worst mud to
be found in the delta. right there at
Kiwai, went on the copra buyer.
''That Malay Hassan seems to have
been investigating the river for some
reasons of his own and he took us past
Kiwai close to the south shore of the
delta at a place they call Mibu. There
was just' enough water for US and no
current.
"A few miles upstream, about where
the river opens ont to form the delta,
we found a native settlement which
they called Adagositia. There we found
one of the Frizzies who had started
with Forrest when he left here.
''Thls boy could patter beach la mar
and we recruited him for an interpreter
up river. After some little cOaxing of
a good hard sort he managed to tell US
that he had left Forrest at the next big
camp upstream, a place called Tagota.
The chief had pulled him out of the
boat, robbed him of his gaspipe musket
and put one of his own men into the
boat in his stead.
''That didn t look promising for For
rest, so we pushed ahead to point d
few miles above Tagota. That was as
far as we could take the schooner and
the prahu, so we left them both there
under guard of the Malays. The rest
was boat work and we got up river as
far as Forrest had gone. !"
"Holy Moses!' calculated Strang-
ways. ''was ever such a mani He says
the rest of it was boat work and we
went up the river. He dozen t say a
word about having to cut way through
miles of canes and reeds in the river.
''He doesn It hint at his scouting
ahead at every turn, worming himself
under the bank around the curves to
make sure that = the next reach was
clear of the Frizzlies, or clearing them
out if it wasn't, for this boat work was
acllve service. He doesn tell you
about the camps he made when night
came on and
every sorry, Mr.. Strangways, re-
the trepang fisher, "but L
undertook to keep you quiet until your
mate had finished his yarn. Sc you
must just temporarily shut up.
"That's nothing" continued Car
stirs. ''That s just boat work, and my
Fiji boys take to it naturally. We are
bothered somewhat in the lower stream
by reason of the islands, they made it
hard to follow the river and not get
fooled off into a swamp backwater.
fThe only real trouble we had was
well up country where the river forked.
The right hand continent was the larg-
er, but there was rather more water
coming down in the narrow stream to
the left. We were puzzled to know
which of the two was the Fly and
which was the Strickland. There was a
native settlement there, and after we
got them quoted down
"'He says he got them quoted down!
They were as peaceable as hive of
bees capsized and he Quoted them. But
20 on with this geographical mar
rative, and Strangways ceased the in
just before Jones reached him
IN his capacity of sergeant-atarm
'Well, they gave US to understand
hat white man in boat had gone up
he right hand stream - continued Car
stairs. "They seemed so anxious to
end us up that way that we determined |
IN going up the deeper stream to the |
eft
+ s. 1t seemed best to overhaul them a
title and we hadn't turned out the |
Kings from more than a few of their
Houses when we uncovered some calico |
md knives and other trade such as
Forrest would have been likely to carry. |
When these things came to light they !
we're anxious to let us know that they |
ladn It done it.
"'They stoutly insisted that these
foods had been given to them by a |
-illage up the left hand stream, for
hat villege was as far as Forrest got. 1t