along, I joined him in it. At dusk, having only succeeded in getting half the canoe over a ridge of rocks, all the natives jumped overboard and swam to the shore half a mile away in the gloom.

By an unfortunate chance the provisions and bedding had preceded us in the other canoes, and we were left in the unenviable position of passing the night in a wet canoe, worried by myriads of mosquitoes, hungry, and drenched by a dense fog. The following morning our servants, the interpreter, and the Abyssinians returned and helped us out of the predicament; the remainder of our men, thinking themselves quit of us, amusing themselves meanwhile to the annoyance of the natives. We afterwards discovered that Kongolo, to whose village we next came — and who was grand chief of the whole district — had given orders that we were not to be allowed to land.