FROM BUSSA TO THE SEA 463 Yet Digui had seen me look at places still less attractive than this pass, which was no pass.

I proved him wrong to some extent, for I did succeed in getting two photographs of the banks we were passing.

I don't deny, however, that I felt a slight shudder pass over me, and I hope I am not more of a coward than anyone else would have been under the circumstances.

ISty> AMONG THE RAPIDS.

/ This time we experienced a peculiar sensation such as we had never had before ; when the boat passed over the whirlpools, everywhere intersecting each other, it seemed to be alternately sucked in and flung out again by the masses of water.

One instant of calm, then a second rapid, and we anchored in a little creek ; Digui then went back to fetch the Atibe and the Dantec and we found ourselves all once more safely together.