the Lukuga flowed into Tanganyika, and not out of it.

These were, naturally, important points to be solved. The United States agent, Mohun, wished to accompany me, and we started arranging the caravan. After carefully eliminating the worst men from Baldwin's detachment, I found sixty five sturdy fellows to take with me. They proved, however, the most undisciplined disobedient set of thieves I had ever to deal with. In addition to their general worthlessness, they could neither swim nor paddle — an exceptional disadvantage in an expedition by water, since, in the matter of transport, it left us entirely in the hands of the natives through whose districts we passed. Among these men were five Abyssinians, the only survivors out of a band of seventy-five who had started from Boma to join us, the rest having died on the