This rapid is nearly opposite the west end of the Mburuma mountains or Karivua.

Another soon begins below it.

They are said to be all smoothed over when the river rises.

The canoes had to be unloaded at this the worst rapid, and the goods carried about a hundred yards.

By taking the time in which a piece of stick floated past 100 feet, we found the current to be running six knots, by far the greatest velocity noted in the river.