Monseigneur van Aertzlaer, and Pere de Deken, the celebrated Asiatic traveller of the Belgian Chinese African Mission. On arriving at Congo de Lemba we found a special train awaiting our arrival. I, however, preferred to continue the march, rather than trust myself to the railway in its then insecure state; and having arrived at Matadi a couple of days later, on the 1st of September 1894, a few weeks afterwards took ship for Europe.