The fall at each of these is between four and six feet.

But the falls of Gonye present a much more serious obstacle.

There we were obliged to take the canoes out of the water, and carry them more than a mile by land.

The fall is about thirty feet.

The main body of water, which comes over the ledge of rock when the river is low, is collected into a space seventy or eighty yards wide before it takes the leap, and, a mass of rock being thrust forward against the roaring torrent, a loud sound is produced.