[The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont by Louis de Rougemont]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Louis de Rougemont CHAPTER VII 13/36
This noise gradually increased in volume, and came nearer and nearer, but still I was utterly unable to account for it.
I also noticed that the river was becoming strangely agitated, and was swirling along at ever- increasing speed.
Suddenly an enormous mass of water came rushing down with a frightful roar, in one solid wave, and then it dawned upon me that it must have already commenced raining in the hills, and the tributaries of the river were now sending down their floods into the main stream, which was rising with astonishing rapidity.
In the course of a couple of hours it had risen between thirty and forty feet.
Yamba seemed a little anxious, and suggested that we had better build a hut on some high ground and remain secure in that locality, without attempting to continue our march while the rains lasted; and it was evident they were now upon us. We therefore set to work to construct a comfortable little shelter of bark, fastened to a framework of poles by means of creepers and climbing plants.
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