stretched out into the river. In the middle of the rapid a great cone-shaped block of quartz, thirty-five or forty feet high, stood, crowned with a little grass plateau and two or three trees, round which flocks of white and black eagles were circling.

On the left side the hill -slope rose sharply from the river bank, forming almost perpendicular cliff's sparsely covered with grass. Kitenge promised us both food and men to proceed on our journey, and left us without either, to starve on the island. On the following day he renewed his promises, but protested that he had no men handy; he had, he said, sent for some to the interior, but since he possessed neither boats nor paddles we would have to lend him our own to bring the people from the mainland. While so talking, we saw three canoes quietly crossing over to the lower end of the island.