or three days, urging that the cows' milk he had succeeded in obtaining from the herd at Nyangwe would go a long way towards giving me strength to bear the journey. He had, after many difficulties — for the herd of cattle was practically wild — succeeded in getting sixteen cows that were possible to milk, and had established a dairy. He was very proud of being able to make butter, though the milk from the sixteen cows gave him only enough cream to make three or four ounces of butter a day.

It had until then always been an accepted theory in the Congo, that, owing to the climate, it was impossible to make butter either from cows' or goats' milk. This idea had most probably originated from the fact that the milk, partly owing to the climate and partly to the rank vegetation on which the animals feed, contains so