CHAPTER XXXV.

THE MEETING OF THE WATERS—THE BENUWÉ AND FÁRO 451

Approach to the River—Mount Alantíka and the Bénuwé—The Tépe or “Junction”—The great Arm of the Kwára—The Traveller’s Pursuits—Highroad of Commerce—The Frail Canoes—Bathing in the Bénuwé—The Passage—The River Fáro; its Current—Floods and Fall of the River—Chabajáure—Densely inhabited District—Mount Bágelé—The Backwater—Ribágo—Cultivation of Rice—The Bátta Language—Inundation—Yebbórewó—Mount Bágelé and Island—Reach Yóla.