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<blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 7605465" data-attributes="member: 59816">Sister Cyas was very pleased to see Miss Imogen again and she gladly accepted her help with the sick. Some were on the road to recovery, and a few remembered Imogen's brief care from her few hour's help when last she was there. Others who she had cared for were among those evacuated in the boats.Sister Cyas said, &quot;Captain Perne took many of the worst in our care with her to Port Nyanzaru for proper rest. We have much less work than before, but of course, she needed to take my assistant Tarsh and a native attendant to care for them on the trip, so it works out to much the same. You'll recall from your journey here that there are many waterfalls to traverse. Some of the sick will have to be carried. I expect they will take a full tenday to get to the Port, and another to return, if they stay a few days to resupply and recruit some reinforcements.&nbsp; They left six days ago, so we should not expect them to return for a fortnight.&quot;Elsewhere, similar math was made by Qawasha, who then suggested, &quot;We could demand the use of their last row-boat, though it would only hold half our number. Hmmm. I expect we could find where our friends Cimber and Dragonbait left their canoe. It was much smaller than ours, but could hold the other half our party. We would be leaving them without if they planned to return for it, though. I expect I could find it in no more than a day or two. At any rate, without watercraft, it would take us sixteen to twenty days to arrive at the fort. Only slightly faster than awaiting the return of our canoe, should it ever happen.&quot;On the subject of a raft, Wulf Rygor remarked, &quot;Rafts are surprisingly ineffective on these sluggish rivers. They don't pole well, and they are hard to maneuver as you approach a falls. Dangerous, really. On top of that, they get caught up in the swamp-grasses that grow at the river's corners. You might be better off walking.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FitzTheRuke, post: 7605465, member: 59816"] Sister Cyas was very pleased to see Miss Imogen again and she gladly accepted her help with the sick. Some were on the road to recovery, and a few remembered Imogen's brief care from her few hour's help when last she was there. Others who she had cared for were among those evacuated in the boats. Sister Cyas said, [B]"Captain Perne took many of the worst in our care with her to Port Nyanzaru for proper rest. We have much less work than before, but of course, she needed to take my assistant Tarsh and a native attendant to care for them on the trip, so it works out to much the same. You'll recall from your journey here that there are many waterfalls to traverse. Some of the sick will have to be carried. I expect they will take a full tenday to get to the Port, and another to return, if they stay a few days to resupply and recruit some reinforcements. They left six days ago, so we should not expect them to return for a fortnight."[/B] Elsewhere, similar math was made by Qawasha, who then suggested, [B]"We could demand the use of their last row-boat, though it would only hold half our number. Hmmm. I expect we could find where our friends Cimber and Dragonbait left their canoe. It was much smaller than ours, but could hold the other half our party. We would be leaving them without if they planned to return for it, though. I expect I could find it in no more than a day or two. At any rate, without watercraft, it would take us sixteen to twenty days to arrive at the fort. Only slightly faster than awaiting the return of our canoe, should it ever happen." [/B]On the subject of a raft, Wulf Rygor remarked, [b]"Rafts are surprisingly ineffective on these sluggish rivers. They don't pole well, and they are hard to maneuver as you approach a falls. Dangerous, really. On top of that, they get caught up in the swamp-grasses that grow at the river's corners. You might be better off walking."[/b] [/QUOTE]

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