Excerpt from book:<br>In the evening we arrived at the Tji-Manoek (Cimanuk), a broad shallow river, with a populous village on either bank at the point where the road joins it. The chief of the first village, with 400 labourers, followed out of curiosity by the women and children, embarked our carriage upon the boats, and deposited it in the middle of the river, where we were met by the inhabitants of the opposite village. There was only two feet depth of water over the space of nearly 300 meters which still divided us from the shore. As the boats were of no use, the worthy people, with the water above their knees, harnessed themselves gallantly to an immensely long rope, and towed us like a ship that is going into dock; but our luggage, light as it is, increased the weight of our carriage too much. Soon we stuck in the mud, becoming an island surrounded by water. A violent effort broke the rope, and men, women, and children, who were clinging to it, took a general bath, with the most picturesque effect. They are so good-natured that they luckily laughed at it themselves.
Comte de Beauvoir (Ludovic Hébert Beauvoir, 1846-1929)
1878
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