sandbanks and islands in its course, literally teemed with game: there were vast flocks of egrets, pelicans, geese, and many other species.

On one occasion we counted 230 hippopotami in a line, looking like a ridge of black rocks. The Kasai natives seem to be dangerous. On several occasions when we were passing close to the land, at points where the scrub on the banks was sufficiently thick to hide them, the natives fired into the steamer with arrows and muskets, apparently from pure love of mischief; for, at the time of which I am speaking, there had not been enough traffic on the river for steamers to have given general cause of quarrel. After twenty -two days' steaming we arrived at Benabendi — the Belgian Commercial Company's station, where the Sankuru joins the Kasai.