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.
29_th_.--For nearly six hours we have been travelling with our bags, and
I can honestly say I feel tired. We are now at a new village--the houses
just going up--on the top of the high green hill in front of Munikahila,
overlooking the Kupa Moumiri valley. The village is named Keninumu, and
consists of four houses at present, two on high trees and two on high
rocks. We have pitched our tent close by, and intend resting until
Monday, when we hope to start for the plain--a very fine country, but no
natives. This part of the plain is dry and barren, with stunted
gum-trees. A party met us when near the village, and a woman with a
child on her shoulder, I suppose seeing me look tired, insisted on my
giving her my bag. I looked at the child, and wondered how she was going
to manage, but that was soon arranged; she made the child sit on her left
shoulder, holding her by the hair; then she took my bundle, and away she
went.
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