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stubs, and provided in the rear with a slightly raised platform also made of bamboo and which being about 10 inches higher permits to sit crosslegged and thus escape wet feet when the raft [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] slides over the parts of the river where the current becomes somewhat of a rapid A tall back nigger who calls himself [[red underline]] "Captain Grant of the Rio-Grande!" [[red underline]] directs the raft [[strikthrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] standing in the middle he wields a bamboo pole with which he poles has two extra poles of a different length lying on the raft. and according to depth of the river he [[strikethrough]] change [[/strikethrough]] now and then changes his pole for one of better corresponding
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length: The [[red underline]] Martins [[/red underline]] have one raft and I follow with the other. The water is very clear and the river in most places is rather shallow Both shores are [[strikethrough]] clad [[/strikethrough]] hilly and are clad in varied tropical vegetation a most charming picture. - All quiet except the rushing of the water or some distant [[red underline]] tom-tom [[/red underline]] of a neighboring [[red underline]] hindoo-settlement. Hindoo [[/red underline]] men with their turbans also their women with many silver bracelets on their arms and ankles. also their neck and a ring in one side of the nose. Glossy straight back hair and very regular features incomparably more handsome [[strikethrough]] than [[/strikethrough]] and a serious expression on